COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL BATTERY RETROFIT
Add Battery Storage to Your Commercial Solar
If your rooftop or ground-mount solar is clipping at the inverter limit, or you’re exporting surplus while still paying peak rates to import later, a battery retrofit closes that gap. Store your own generation and use it when energy is most expensive.
Commercial battery systems typically qualify for 100% capital allowances — a year-one tax deduction. Ask us for the figures for your business.
GET STARTED
Get your commercial battery quote
Send your site details, current solar setup and a recent bill or half-hourly data if you have it. We respond within 24 hours.
WHY RETROFIT
Where storage pays back fastest
A battery lets you use the solar you already generate during your most expensive periods — turning exported or clipped energy into savings on every bill.
- Peak shaving — cut your most expensive half-hours and reduce capacity and DUoS red-band charges.
- Stop clipping losses — capture the generation your inverter currently throws away on bright days.
- Load shifting — move self-generated or off-peak energy into your costly import periods.
- Resilience for production — ride through short outages and voltage events without dropping a line.
- Export where it pays — where tariffs reward it, discharge to the grid at peak value.
THE APPROACH
Retrofit without ripping anything out
AC-coupling lets us add storage alongside your existing panels and inverters, with no need to replace working equipment. We model your half-hourly consumption and generation to size the system for the fastest return, and integrate Nova AI energy management to run it automatically against your tariff.
- Half-hourly, data-led battery sizing for maximum ROI.
- Nova AI EMS for automated peak shaving and tariff optimisation.
- Full DNO / G99 support.
- MCS-accredited installation by our own team.
- A Quick Quote within 24 hours and a full technical proposal within 5 days of survey.
SMART ENERGY MANAGEMENT
Powered by Nova AI
Your battery is only as good as the intelligence running it. Nova AI is our energy management platform that turns your solar and storage into a self-optimising asset — automatically buying, storing and discharging energy against live tariffs and grid signals to earn its keep every day.
- Energy arbitrage — buy low, store, and use or sell when prices peak.
- Automated peak shaving and load shifting against your live tariff.
- Virtual power plant ready — access grid services and VPP trading revenue.
PROVEN IN INDUSTRY
Delivered for UK manufacturers and distributors
Novalux completed a 1.25MWp system for Twinings (ABF Group) and a 210.6kWp solar array with 258kWh of battery storage for LWC Drinks in Liverpool — the kind of projects where storage and smart control decide the numbers.
Novalux were very responsive to requirements. The installation was very efficient and very professionally managed.
Adrien Etchells, Finance Director, Hartley’s
QUESTIONS
Commercial battery retrofit FAQs
Yes. Our AC-coupled retrofit is compatible with all major inverter brands and sits alongside your current system.
Solar only helps while it is generating. A battery lets you use that energy during expensive peak periods, shave capacity charges and stop losing clipped generation.
Commercial battery systems typically qualify as plant and machinery for capital allowances — often a 100% deduction in year one. We set out the exact position for your business in your proposal.
Most commercial retrofits pay back in around 2 to 4 years depending on tariff and load profile. Your proposal models the figures for your site.
GET STARTED
Get your commercial battery quote
Send your site details, current solar setup and a recent bill or half-hourly data if you have it. We respond within 24 hours, with a full technical proposal within 5 days of a free site survey.