With business energy bills getting utterly ridiculous, perhaps now is the time to invest in solar energy, battery storage, and a Business Energy Management System?
The BBC has recently reported how many pubs, restaurants, and other mid-sized businesses are facing a double whammy of reduced customer footfall and exploding energy bills. People are enjoying outside entertainment less because of their extortionate energy bills yet the costs of running a business is getting ridiculous.
Control the "global factors”
All the while the UK government is still saying, “no government" would be able to control the "global factors pushing up the price of energy and other business costs”. A government that isn’t apparently too fussed about old grannies freezing to death in their beds this winter is even less fussed about businesses surviving.
That means users' are on their own. What will they do about it? Will they close their business and potentially join the freezing, starving masses on too low incomes to pay their energy bills? Or will they invest in energy generation and saving measures to survive?
Ways ZPN Can Help
ZPN Energy has a suite of solutions that could significantly reduce energy bills
ZPN Energy has a suite of solutions that could significantly reduce energy bills in the coming months. There has never been a better time to invest in solar arrays, energy storage, and a Business Energy Management System (BEMS). Let’s take a look at these now.
Solar arrays will generate around a kilowatt of energy per square meter. On a sunny day that would amount to 8.2 kilowatt-hours of energy per panel. Could one generate 82kWh of energy daily? That would soon eat into the final energy bills.
The sun doesn’t always shine in the UK. This is where a battery storage system can work. The largest battery unit being made at ZPN Energy is the 3-megawatt-hour ZAP Store. There are other, smaller affairs too.
Another way
Another way to save energy costs is to buy in off-peak times. If you could attach a ZAP Store unit to a three-phase AC grid connection you could charge it in off-peak hours during the night and release that energy during peak energy use in the day.
This is where the Business Energy Management System (BEMS) comes in. This software manages energy use, including directing excess solar-generated energy to the battery storage system and storing energy at off-peak times for use at peak times.
Capital Costs Drop
When battery storage and solar arrays came out they were essentially for those who wanted to save the planet. Thanks to soaring energy costs, this equipment is at the point where a high energy user could pay for it in just a couple of years in terms of energy bill cost savings. In some cases one might even make money back in a year.
