Hotel battery retrofit

Hotels never switch off. Neither should your solar.

Kitchens, laundry, pools and rooms draw around the clock — but solar only pays while the sun is up. A battery lets your hotel use its own daytime generation through the evening peak, when guests are in and energy is most expensive.

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Send us your site details and current setup — a Quick Quote with financial modelling within 24 hours, full technical proposal within 5 days of survey.

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The numbers

34 hotel sites delivered for one national chain
28–80kWp per-site systems sized to each hotel’s load
2–5yrs typical payback on solar-plus-battery
24hrs to a Quick Quote for your site or estate

66 seconds on a hotel roof.

Qualifying plant typically attracts up to 100% year-one tax relief through capital allowances — ask us for the figures for your business, or get a budget range from the calculator — and every system is available with £0-upfront funding. pricing within 24 hours

Drone view of rooftop solar across the Hartley’s food-processing plant, delivered by Novalux

Trusted by established commercial and industrial businesses.

“Novalux were very responsive to requirements… The installation by Novalux was very efficient and very professionally managed.”

Adrien Etchells — Finance Director, Hartley’s

Whitbread, Tarmac, Twinings, Hartley’s and R.S. Cockerill all run Novalux systems — designed, installed and maintained by our own MCS-accredited team, and published as case studies with their delivered figures.

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Why retrofit

Cut the bill at every hour guests are paying for.

Evening peak covered.

Check-in, dinner service and room load land exactly in the most expensive half-hours. Stored solar carries them.

Peak shaving.

Reduce capacity charges and red-band import on half-hourly metered sites.

Resilience for guests.

Ride through short outages without dark corridors, dead lifts or lost bookings.

ESG targets.

Reduced Scope 2 emissions for group sustainability reporting, backed by real generation data.

Estate-wide rollouts.

One proven design, repeated across your sites — we have delivered exactly this at national scale.

Up to 100% year-one tax relief.

Qualifying plant typically attracts up to 100% first-year relief through capital allowances — your accountant confirms the treatment; our proposals itemise the equipment.

Get the numbers for your site Quick Quote within 24 hours — no site visit needed for the first figures

The approach

Retrofit — or start from a bare roof.

  • AC-coupled retrofit alongside your existing solar — or solar-plus-storage designed together for unpanelled sites.
  • Sized on your real half-hourly data: occupancy patterns, kitchen and laundry peaks, seasonal swing.
  • Nova AI energy management runs the battery automatically against your tariff.
  • Installed around live hotel operations — 34 completed hotel sites without disrupting a single guest stay.
  • A Quick Quote within 24 hours and a full technical proposal within 5 days of survey.
Novalux commercial battery storage cabinets with integrated inverter and DC cabling

Nova AI

Your battery is only as good as the intelligence running it.

Nova AI is our energy-management platform. Every 30 minutes it makes the call for your battery — buy energy while it’s cheap, use it, store it, or sell it against live tariffs and grid signals — so the system earns its keep every day without anyone touching it.

  • 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 revenue.

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The Nova AI dashboard on a laptop — generation charts and half-hourly battery decisions for a delivered site

Proof

34 hotel sites delivered across the UK.

Novalux has completed a national rollout of 34 hotel-site systems from Darlington to Paignton — 28 to 80 kWp per site, installed around live operations — plus battery-backed systems for hospitality and leisure operators.

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Questions

The questions asked before every retrofit.

Can you install without disrupting guests?

Yes — we have completed 34 hotel-site installations around live operations. Work is planned with your site team, deliveries and lifts are scheduled around service, and guest-facing areas stay open.

Our roofs are already panelled — can we still add batteries?

Yes. AC-coupled storage retrofits to your existing solar without replacing panels or inverters, and is sized to your evening and overnight load.

What is the payback period?

Commercial solar-plus-battery systems typically pay back in 2–5 years. Your Quick Quote includes 25-year cashflow and the payback figures for your site or estate.