Commercial Battery Storage
Commercial battery storage can aid the saving potential of solar systems for businesses with specific usage habits. If your energy usage is high at night, battery storage could significantly boost your savings.
CEO - Moss Electrical
We couldn’t be happier with the process and are now saving £300,000 per year on our electricity costs.
We’d highly recommend considering commercial solar.
How batteries aid your commercial solar system
Saving big on high energy costs
Energy costs are set to rise by XX% per year until 2030. Hedging against this near certainty will lead to large cost deductions.
Reducing grid reliance and cost volatility
2021 and 2022 exposed many businesses to their reliance on the grid and vulnerability to price changes. Solar reduces your exposure.
Reducing carbon footprint by thousands of kilograms
With Net Zero targets putting many businesses under pressure to reduce their carbon footprint, battery storage serves as a brilliant vehicle to do so.
Immediate savings potential with PPA
With Power Purchase Agreements (PPA), businesses can reduce costs in their first year with £0 upfront payment.
Should batteries always be installed with commercial solar systems?
The need for batteries depends on your business’s nature and energy usage.
Providers claiming all systems should be installed with dedicated battery storage are unfortunately misguided.
We conduct many consultations where the addition of battery storage would significantly increase the payback period and reduce overall savings from the system as a whole.
Sometimes, our clients do not have visibility over the full picture at the point of consultation.
In these cases, we often install the solar system without any accompanying battery storage solutions but with monitoring and technologies in place that will allow us to make a better judgement in 6-12 months time.
Should the data show that a battery storage solution would provide a significant return on investment (financial, ecologically etc.), then we will retrofit a storage system at no additional cost compared to installing it initially.
This approach ensures our clients have full visibility of the impact of their long-term decisions and allows us to be confident in our projections.
Would battery storage benefit my business?
While no two systems are the same, there are some typical characteristics of businesses that we would expect to significantly benefit from the addition of a battery storage system alongside a commercial solar system.
That said, we always recommend seeking expert counsel so that the data is there to void any assumptions made.
ThermoFisher cut energy costs by 15% without any upfront or ongoing costs
Custodian Capital are one of our repeat clients and partners. By installing an 830 kW solar system on one of their properties, they were able to pass on a 15% reduction in energy costs to ThermoFisher.
This is under a common arrangement called a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) whereby an asset manager will fund and maintain an installation under an agreement to sell the energy at a reduced rate to the property user.
Reducing CO2 emissions for a shopping centre by 25,541kg per year
Hazel Farm generates £472,500 in energy yearly
Cobbs Cross reduces 35 million kg CO2 and generates £17.5m in energy over 25 years
£455,610 in lifetime savings for the largest independent training provider in England
Saving over 100,000 kg of CO2 annually with solar installation
£2m in lifetime savings for Menzies
Cutting electricity costs by £448 weekly and CO2 emissions by 26,695 kg annually
Chapel Farm reduces 1.08 million kg CO2 over 25 years
Cutting 8,030 kg of CO2 emissions annually with solar panels
Fardanes generates £1,184,400 in energy annually
Soho Farm reduces 702,644 kg CO2 annually
Honnington project generates nearly £30m in energy over 25 years
Saving £19,477 annually while reducing CO2 emissions by 30,474 kg
Box Road reduces 26 million kg CO2 and generates £14m in energy over 25 years
Reducing grid reliance and saving £27,528 annually
1.05 million kg CO2 reduced annually by Lains project
ROI in under 3 years for Porsche's 2nd system installation
3.2 year lifetime return on investment for Porsche
£850k in energy generated yearly at Bay Farm
Combermere Abbey generates enough energy to power 3,500+ homes per year
Dorset Council generate £341,880 worth of energy per year
£14m in energy generated over 25 years by Magazine project
Reducing energy overhead for Moss Electrical by £168,720 per year
129 panels installed at Oakland Grange
Achieving substantial CO2 savings of 54,253 kg annually through solar installation
BAT's system yields £6.64m in savings
Offsetting 43,468 kg of CO2 annually through solar power
ThermoFisher reduce energy costs by 15% via PPA
Menzies's second installation generates just shy of £1m in lifetime savings
Your financial options
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Andy Kidger
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Robert Moss
Managing Director
Moss Electrical
Javed Sattar
Portfolio Manager
Custodian Capital
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Installation can be scheduled to minimise disruption to residents and staff. It typically takes a few days to a week, depending on the system size, and can be managed around care home routines to ensure minimal impact and discomfort on your residents.
Solar power protects care homes from rising energy costs because you are generating your own electricity which means that your building is less reliant on grid power. Your building is then protected from fluctuating energy prices Solar energy offers stable, predictable costs for 25+ years, giving you better control over the operational expenses of your facility.
Yes, solar panels are suitable for care homes as they have large roof space and work well in facilities that need energy generated 24/7. Care homes also tend to operate during daylight hours when solar energy production is at its peak.
There are a few financial benefits from installing solar panels in your care home, for example, tax allowance and VAT exemptions. Business are able to claim 100% VAT exemption on energy saving materials and 100% first year tax allowance on ECO assets, which allows the full cost of the solar equipment to be deducted from any profits made.
Yes, solar panels for care homes are easy to maintain. We recommend that you get your solar panels cleaned once a year.
The amount of time it takes to install solar panels for car dealerships will depend on the size of your facility. Most solar systems can be implemented in a few weeks or months, however. The process of installing solar panels includes energy audits, system design, permitting, and installation.
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