Commercial Battery Backup
Keep the building running when the power does not
Standalone battery backup for Illinois businesses. No solar array required. We study your load first, back up the circuits you choose, and show you a real transfer before you sign it off.
- System type
- Standalone storage, no array required
- Building types
- Retail, food service, office, clinics
- Scope
- Load study, supply and install
- Backs up
- The circuits you choose
What We Install
Backup is only worth what it carries. These are the three reasons Illinois businesses actually buy storage, and we size for whichever one is yours.
Critical Load Backup
Battery sized to carry the circuits that cost you money when they stop: walk-in refrigeration, point of sale, security, emergency lighting and access control.
- Load study before anything is sized
- Backed-up circuits chosen by you
- Automatic transfer, no manual switching
- Runs without a generator on site
Ride-Through for Sensitive Equipment
Clean transfer for equipment that does not tolerate a blink: servers, network gear, medical refrigeration and control systems that would otherwise need a manual restart.
- Seamless transfer on an outage
- No restart of sensitive equipment
- Sits alongside existing UPS gear
- Monitored, with alerts on events
Demand and Rate Management
Where your tariff makes it worthwhile, the battery can discharge into your building at peak instead of drawing from the grid. Whether that pays depends on your rate and your load shape, and we will tell you honestly if it does not.
- We read 12 months of your bills first
- Modelled against your actual rate
- No projection without your interval data
- Told plainly when it is not worth it
How a Commercial Job Runs
Load Study
We go through 12 months of bills and walk your panel to work out what you actually need carried, and for how long. Guessing at this is how systems end up the wrong size.
Size and Scope
You get the proposed capacity, the circuits it backs up, the runtime we expect at your real load, and what happens when the battery runs down before the power comes back.
Permits and Utility
We pull the electrical permit and file what your utility needs. Standalone storage is a simpler filing than an interconnected array, and we handle it.
Install, Commission, Hand Over
We install, test a real transfer with you watching, and show your people what the monitoring tells them. You should see it work before you sign it off.
Questions We Get From Property Owners
Do I need solar panels for this?
No. This is standalone storage: the battery charges from the grid and carries your building when the grid goes down. Nothing goes on your roof.
How long will it run my building?
That depends entirely on which circuits you back up and what they draw, which is why we do the load study before quoting a runtime. Anyone who gives you an hours figure before seeing your panel and your bills is guessing.
How is this different from a generator?
A battery transfers instantly and silently, needs no fuel delivery and no monthly exercise run, and can sit indoors. A generator runs indefinitely while it has fuel. For long multi-day outages a generator still wins; for the short outages most Illinois businesses actually see, a battery covers it without the noise, the permits or the fuel.
Can it lower my bill as well as back me up?
Sometimes, on the right rate. It depends on your tariff and your load shape, so we read your interval data before saying yes. If the numbers do not support it we will say so and you can buy it purely as backup, which is what most of our customers do.
Are you licensed and insured for commercial electrical work?
Yes. We carry general liability and workers compensation and provide certificates naming your entity as additional insured. The electrical work is permitted and inspected the same as any other commercial installation.
Start with the load study
Send us 12 months of bills and tell us what cannot be allowed to go dark. We will come back with a size, a runtime at your real load, and a straight answer on whether it pays for itself.