BESS for Business

Store Energy, Cut Peak Costs

A commercial battery energy storage system (BESS) gives your business control over when it draws power. Store cheap off-peak or surplus solar electricity and discharge it during expensive peak periods, smooth out demand spikes, and keep critical operations running through an outage. Whether it sits alongside a new commercial solar PV system or works standalone on time-of-use tariffs, we design and install scalable storage for businesses across Preston, Lancashire and the North West.

The Business Case

What Storage Does For You

Storage turns a passive supply into a flexible, controllable asset.

Peak Shaving

Discharge during the most expensive periods to slice the peak-rate units off your bill and reduce capacity charges.

Off-Peak Charging

Fill the battery overnight at the lowest tariff rates and use that cheaper energy through the working day.

Maximise Solar

Capture daytime solar generation you can't use immediately instead of exporting it cheaply to the grid.

Backup & Resilience

Keep tills, refrigeration, servers and other critical loads running through a grid outage or brownout.

Designed Around Your Load

Sized to Your Demand Profile

The right system depends entirely on how and when your business uses energy. We analyse your half-hourly consumption, tariff structure and any existing or planned solar, then specify the battery capacity and inverter power that delivers genuine value — not just the biggest box. Systems are modular, so storage can grow with your demand.

AC and DC-coupled configurations
Modular, scalable capacity that grows with you
Time-of-use tariff & peak-shaving control
Backup supply for critical circuits
Remote monitoring & performance reporting

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Commercial Sunsynk hybrid inverters and battery switchgear installed by GM Electrical Services

Who Benefits Most

Where Storage Pays Off

Businesses with sharp demand peaks, time-of-use tariffs, on-site solar or a need for resilience see the strongest case for storage.

Manufacturing

Smooth the demand spikes from start-up loads and heavy machinery to ease capacity and peak-rate charges.

Retail & Hospitality

Protect refrigeration and trading through outages and run more of the day on stored, cheaper energy.

Agriculture

Store surplus solar to power refrigeration, milking and processing into the evening, away from the panels' peak.

Data & IT

Provide ride-through and backup for servers and network equipment where downtime is simply not an option.

Logistics & EV Fleets

Buffer high-power EV charging so you can charge a fleet without costly grid-supply upgrades.

Public & Community

Schools and leisure centres pair storage with solar to deepen savings and demonstrate resilience.

Proven Capability

Storage Systems We've Fitted

From commercial inverter and switchgear installs to high-capacity battery systems — including 200kWh of DC-coupled storage on our largest project to date.