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Battery storage for commercial property.
Tenants judge a building by whether the lights stay on. Storage keeps common areas and anchor tenants running, makes rooftop solar worth more and takes the edge off the demand charge.
01 · The problem
What the site
is up against.
Solar
Rooftop solar capped at midday
Export limits and low feed-in credits mean surplus solar is curtailed or sold cheaply.
Tariff
Municipal time-of-use and demand
Municipal tariffs charge for peak energy and maximum demand, and recover them from tenants.
02 · What storage does
What the battery
does about it.
- 01Backup for the buildingCarries common areas, lifts, security and anchor tenants through an outage.
- 02Solar self-consumptionStores midday surplus for the late-afternoon and evening load.
- 03Demand ceilingHolds the monthly maximum demand down.
- 04Peak shiftingMoves energy out of the municipal peak windows.
03 · Typical configuration
Indicative,
before the load study.
| Systems | A100 blocks in 1 MWh steps, or an A200 |
| Connection | 400 V, three-phase |
| Duration | 2 or 4 hours |
| Pairs with | Rooftop PV, existing gensets |
| Commercial model | PPA, so the landlord carries no capex and recovers the energy cost |
Every configuration is sized from the site's own interval data and tariff; this is a starting point, not a quote.
04 · Questions
Asked by commercial property
buyers.
Do municipal tariffs work with storage?
Yes. Solaris loads the municipal time-of-use calendar and demand charges for the supply area, which do not always match Eskom's.
How much space does it need?
An A100 is a 10 ft container, 2 991 × 2 438 mm, on a plinth with access and clearance around it.
Can the cost be recovered from tenants?
Under a PPA the building buys energy at a fixed rate, which can be passed through to tenants like any other energy cost.
Related solutions
How the value
is made.
Solar self-consumptionStore surplus solar instead of exporting it at a low credit or curtailing it.Read more →
Backup & islandingKeep critical loads running through load-shedding and network faults.Read more →
NMD reductionUse battery storage to hold demand under your notified maximum demand, avoid excess-demand charges and lower NMD at renewal on large-power-user tariffs..Read more →Next step
Start with your meter data.
Twelve months of interval data, your tariff schedule and your notified maximum demand are enough for a first sizing, an indicative capex and a PPA rate, within five working days, at no cost.