Mostly daytime
Examine how much electricity the facility uses during solar hours, including quieter periods and days when production stops.
SOLAR FOR YOUR OPERATION
Electricity is a cost. What can you control?
An industrial solar project should make sense to the people running the plant and the people responsible for its finances. Start with when you consume electricity, what it costs and what your operation cannot afford to interrupt.
01 / YOUR OPERATING PATTERN
When does the plant actually need power?
How well solar generation matches your demand is more useful than knowing how many panels will fit on the roof.
Multiple shifts
Separate daytime demand from evening and overnight use. The economics of direct solar and stored energy need different assumptions.
Continuous or variable operations
Review the load profile, production changes and critical equipment. An average monthly bill can hide important peaks and interruptions.
02 / THE COMMERCIAL CASE
What does electricity really cost the operation?
A useful review connects the energy invoice to production, existing power systems and the way your business evaluates capital investment.
01
Look inside the bill
Review recent bills, tariffs, consumption and demand charges. Establish which costs a proposed system could change, rather than treating the entire invoice as potential savings.
02
Understand the cost of interruptions
Identify critical equipment, generator use and power-quality requirements. Solar alone does not guarantee uninterrupted production.
03
Check how the systems would work together
Assess the existing electrical infrastructure, generation sources and operational constraints before choosing an installation scope.
04
Define what would justify the investment
Use realistic capital costs, operating expenses and return assumptions that the business can evaluate against its other priorities.
03 / A USEFUL FIRST REVIEW
Start with a bill
and an operating profile.
The first conversation should establish whether there is a serious opportunity and what still needs investigation. We can then decide whether a detailed technical and financial assessment is justified.
WHAT HELPS US BEGIN01
Your electricity expenditure
A recent bill or approximate monthly amount.
02
Your production schedule
What the facility does and its usual operating hours.
03
Your operational requirements
Critical loads, generator use and known constraints.
You don't need a completed technical brief.
BEFORE YOU DECIDE
Questions worth asking
The financial case and engineering case should support the same decision.
YOUR NEXT STEP
Let's look at the numbers behind the meter.
Tell us about the facility, operating hours and electricity expenditure. We can identify what is worth evaluating.
Another situation to consider?
You can explore the other journeys and tell us about them in the same enquiry.