What a battery saves a business, which sites it suits, and how to find out for yours. Supplied and supported from Adelaide, installed by an accredited partner near you.
Before anything is ordered, Designer works out what your site is trying to achieve. That might be energy independence, the lowest total bill, or getting a demand charge under control. Connect then runs the site to that same objective after commissioning, and AI Mode re-plans against it every day. Two sites on the same tariff can end up weighted quite differently, because they want different things.
The last step matters most. AI Mode keeps re-learning your site and adds at least 20% additional savings, with real-world examples reaching as high as 46%. We model every site individually before estimating what AI Mode will add.
We supply and support the system. An accredited installer does the site work. You get a local installer who owns the job, and a supplier who will never quote behind them.
A commercial battery earns its place by doing several jobs at once. These are the six that show up on a bill.
Your highest half-hour of the month sets a charge you pay all month, and on many commercial bills that's 30% to 50% of the total. The battery clips those peaks before the network sees them.
How peak shaving works →The dearest electricity of the day is bought between late afternoon and about 9pm. Store your midday energy and spend it in that window instead.
Switchover takes 20 to 50 milliseconds depending on the system. The system also watches the Bureau of Meteorology forecast and charges to full ahead of a storm in your area.
If the network can't give your site more capacity, a battery with solar can lift the energy available on site by up to 40% while you wait for the upgrade, or instead of it.
Join a virtual power plant and the battery can earn income from the market on the days your site doesn't need all of it.
Under a power purchase agreement the system is funded and installed for you, and you pay a fixed rate for the power it produces that's set below your current grid rate.
The load looks different on every site. On the bill it looks the same. These are the industries where batteries are already paying their way.
Production sets your peaks, and one bad afternoon prices the whole month.
Compressors run around the clock and so does the battery. Solar fills it by day and it carries the evening peak.
Air conditioning and kitchens peak exactly when the tariff does.
Pumps and cool rooms spike in the hottest part of the day, and harvest is when the bill hurts most. That's also when solar and storage do their best work.
Forklift charging and cold docks stack peaks on top of peaks.
If your bill has a demand charge, the pattern probably fits. Send us a bill and we'll tell you.
Check my siteA battery doesn't suit every site, whatever a salesperson tells you. It stacks up when a few things line up. Tick two or more:
Two or more and a load assessment is worth your time. We model your interval data, and if storage doesn't stack up on your load we tell you before you've spent anything.
Both paths start from the same load assessment, and both run on the same hardware and software.
Most commercial sites with a meaningful demand charge land between 4.5 and 7.6 years, and incentives can pull that forward. The answer for your site comes out of your interval data, which is what a load assessment models.
Yes. Since 1 September 2026 the NSW Peak Demand Reduction Scheme has covered commercial batteries. Ampaura VAST is certified for BESS4 and the RCTerra range for BESS5. Solar certificates still apply to new solar installed with the system. The federal Cheaper Home Batteries Program covers small businesses too, though only the first 50 kWh of usable capacity is discounted. We'll tell you what your site qualifies for.
No. A battery cuts demand charges and shifts load into cheap tariff windows on its own. With solar it works harder, and if you're planning solar the two are usually best designed together.
A 261 kWh cabinet has roughly the footprint of a double fridge and lives outdoors or in a plant area. Larger systems scale as additional cabinets or a container.
It keeps improving. Ampaura Connect monitors and controls the system for its whole life, AI Mode keeps re-learning your site, and support is a phone call to Adelaide.
Send us what you can read off your bill. We'll model your load and show you the numbers with their assumptions. Same-day response on qualified enquiries.
Prefer to talk? Call us in Adelaide on (08) 7134 3488.