Commercial · Energy Storage
Battery Storage Systems
Store cheap daytime power and spend it when the grid gets expensive — or disappears.
Commercial battery storage banks surplus solar or cheap off-peak power and unleashes it when needed — shaving demand charges, bridging outages, stretching every kilowatt-hour.
01 — Overview
Power on your schedule, not the grid’s
- Sized in kW and kWh to your load
- Lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) chemistry
- Pairs with solar or stands alone
- Seamless backup and peak shaving
Commercial battery storage banks surplus solar or cheap off-peak power and unleashes it when needed — shaving demand charges, bridging outages, stretching every kilowatt-hour.
Typical specifications
Indicative ranges for a representative installation. Final specification is confirmed at design stage against site survey and measured load.
- Power rating
- 30 kW – 1 MW+
- Energy capacity
- 60 kWh – 2 MWh+
- Chemistry
- Lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP)
- Round-trip efficiency
- ~90–95%
- Cycle life
- ~6,000 cycles
- Changeover
- Sub-cycle (seamless backup)
- Inverter
- Hybrid / battery, grid-forming
- Monitoring
- Remote, real-time
- Design life
- 10–15 years
Ranges reflect typical industry standards and are indicative, not a guarantee of performance.
02 — Applications
Where this technology is applied
The settings we most commonly deploy this system in, and the duty it performs in each.
Peak shaving
Discharges into your monthly demand peak to cut capacity charges efficiency measures can’t reach.
Solar self-consumption
Stores midday surplus for after dark, so more of your own generation offsets pricey grid power.
Seamless backup
Bridges outages within a fraction of a cycle, keeping servers, cold chain and production running.
Time-of-use arbitrage
Charges cheap off-peak or solar and discharges into pricey peaks, banking the difference daily.
Grid-edge stability
Smooths voltage and supports weak or unreliable connections, protecting sensitive equipment.
Solar-plus-storage microgrids
Anchors an on-site microgrid that can island entirely during extended outages.
03 — Outcomes
Turn stored energy into saved money
- Demand charges cut at the peak
- Critical loads ride through outages
- More of your own solar self-consumed
- A tariff hedge that pays every month
A battery turns electricity from something you must use instantly into something you spend on purpose — unlocking value several ways at once. The quickest win is demand-charge reduction: many tariffs bill hard on your monthly peak, and a battery quietly flattens it. Paired with solar, it lets you self-consume far more of your own power instead of selling cheap and buying back dear — sharply improving payback. It’s also seamless backup: where a generator starts with a server-crashing delay, a battery bridges outages instantly and silently. And as peak prices rise, your stored energy is worth more. The tech is mature, LFP is safe and long-lived, and a well-tuned system works daily rather than idling. The one discipline: honest sizing against measured load, not guesswork.
Best suited to
- Businesses facing significant demand (capacity) charges on their tariff
- Sites with solar exporting surplus cheaply by day
- Operations needing seamless, silent backup for critical loads
04 — Track record
Where we have implemented it
Reference installations delivered and commissioned by our engineers.
- 250 kW / 560 kWh2024
Distribution warehouse
Namanve Industrial Park
Peak shaving cut the monthly demand charge materially while covering critical loads through outages.
- 50 kW / 100 kWh2024
Office headquarters
Kampala
Seamless backup replaced a diesel generator; daytime solar self-consumption rose sharply.
- 400 kW / 800 kWh2023
Agro-processing plant
Mbarara District
Solar-plus-storage microgrid islands through grid failures, protecting a continuous process line.
Project details are representative of work delivered in this sector. Figures are rounded; full case studies available on request.
05 — Delivery
The installation process
Every installation follows the same engineered sequence, from first survey to commissioning and handover.
We meter your load to pin down demand-charge peaks, outage exposure and any wasted solar surplus.
We size two dimensions: power (kW) for how hard it discharges, energy (kWh) for how long.
We specify safe, long-life LFP cells with an inverter and an energy-management system timing every cycle.
Control is tuned to your tariff — charge on cheap solar or off-peak, discharge into peaks, hold a reserve.
For backup, changeover is seamless — protected circuits ride through failure within a fraction of a cycle.
Installation covers enclosure, inverters, protection, metering and thermal management, to standard.
We commission against the model, verify savings, set up monitoring, and hand over earning reports.
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