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Commercial battery storage can help businesses reduce peak demand and take advantage of lower electricity rates throughout the day. Brightworks Energy’s new program removes the upfront investment and is structured around delivering real savings for qualifying properties. It starts with analyzing your energy data to determine whether battery storage makes financial sense for your facility.
Deep Dive
For many commercial property owners, the energy conversation is changing.
It is no longer simply about whether a roof is suitable for solar. Increasingly, businesses are looking at their electricity bills and asking a different question: What can we do to reduce these costs?
Commercial battery storage could be part of the answer.
Brightworks has introduced a battery storage program designed around a straightforward proposition: we install the system with no upfront cost to the customer and use it to reduce electricity costs.
If the system does not deliver the expected savings, the customer is not left carrying the financial risk.
How does battery storage lower electricity costs?
Commercial electricity bills can be affected by much more than the total amount of electricity a facility consumes.
For some businesses, peak demand charges and time-of-use electricity rates can represent significant opportunities for savings.
A properly designed battery system can charge when electricity is less expensive and discharge stored energy when rates are higher. It can also be used for peak shaving, reducing the facility’s demand from the grid during periods when consumption is at its highest.
The objective is not simply to install a battery. It is to use battery storage and intelligent energy management to change when and how a facility purchases electricity from the grid.
Which businesses should take a closer look?
Every commercial property has a different energy profile, so battery storage will not produce the same results everywhere.
However, CEO Bobby MacCannell says businesses should consider having the conversation if their monthly peak demand exceeds approximately 50 kW or if their electricity bills are heavily affected by time-of-use charges.
The first step does not require purchasing equipment.
Brightworks reviews the property’s interval data, sometimes called Green Button data, which records electricity consumption at regular intervals. Typically, 12 months of this data allows the team to model how the facility consumes electricity and identify potential savings opportunities.
From there, Brightworks can determine whether battery storage makes financial sense for the property and what type of system may be appropriate.
Start with your energy data
For commercial property owners facing increasingly difficult electricity costs, the question may no longer be whether battery technology works.
The more useful question is: Could it work for your building?
Contact us to request an energy assessment. We’ll review your energy profile, model the potential savings and determine whether your property is a candidate for the commercial battery storage program.