Storage for Factories Guide
A factory approaches storage differently from a home, because a factory's problem is a load profile: demand that spikes with production, idles at night and changes with shifts and seasons. This guide follows the order a factory should work in, from the meter to the enquiry.
Work in this order
- Start at the meter: gather the demand data the site has, even if it is only recent bills and a typical week's pattern
- Name the duties in priority order: peak shaving, solar self-consumption, backup for essential lines
- Walk the site for placement: outdoor space near the main intake, cable routes, maintenance access
- Check the solar position: existing array, roof plans, or no solar at all — storage can still pay on tariff alone
- Agree the essential-load list with production, not just with engineering: they are the people who will judge an outage
The cabinet format documented in this catalogue fits this workflow because it is planned per project: assembled and integrated around the site's duty and load. The factory planning notes in the blog take the same ground from the experience side, including the mistakes that only show up after installation.
Expect the first conversation to be about your data, not about a model. A supplier who asks for the load profile before quoting a rating is following the same order this guide sets out.