The energy market has evolved tenfold in recent years, from the way businesses facilitate and monitor usage to how electricity is sourced and supplied.
Technology has infiltrated the utilities market with smart monitoring systems and mobile battery packs, whilst climate change makes us more mindful of our energy choices with a move towards renewable sources. As consumers, this clearly illustrates that people are embracing the shifting energy landscape so why aren’t businesses along for the ride?
With power grids overrun with demand, businesses must play their role in alleviating some of that pressure, by taking the necessary steps to control their own power source particularly at times when demand might outweigh supply.
The falling cost of battery storage creates a timely opportunity to increase the use and grid parity of renewables, granting both commercial users and consumers better control over their energy usage and power bills. This in turn has the potential to strengthen and secure an ageing power grid in the UK.
Making an investment in commercial storage goes beyond a call to help save the environment – there are genuine business benefits which make battery storage systems a valid and feasible approach to storing and monitoring energy capacity on-site, which can provide a route to transformative change for both business and society as a whole.
Empowering businesses
On-site energy storage systems ultimately ensure the smooth running of a workplace. Their ability to enable commercial and industrial businesses to become more sustainable by controlling their power bills, supply risks via a backup power is the pinnacle of energy efficiency.
The most obvious benefit of battery storage though is its flexibility, making it an ideal complement to slower but higher-capacity stores of energy such as pumped hydro or natural gas reserves.
