Guide
Storage on your side of the utility meter, working on your bill.
Behind-the-meter (BTM) storage is installed on the customer's side of the utility meter. It changes what the site draws from the grid, so its value shows up on the customer's bill: lower demand charges, energy shifted to cheaper hours, solar used on site, and backup.
Front-of-the-meter storage connects to the network and serves the utility or market. Leberi containers can do either; most C&I projects are behind the meter. See C&I storage.
Consider a site whose load sits around 300 kW most of the day but spikes to 450 kW for 30 minutes each morning when equipment starts. If the tariff charges on the monthly peak, that half hour decides a large part of the bill.
A behind-the-meter battery that supplies 150 kW for those 30 minutes needs only about 75 kWh of usable energy, plus margin, to hold the measured peak near 300 kW. The saving shows up every month, and the same battery can back up critical loads during an outage.
Real sites are messier: peaks move, some months are hotter, and tariffs change. That is why we model savings from a full year of interval data and keep the numbers conservative.
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On the customer's side of the utility meter, so the storage affects the customer's own consumption and bill.
Where demand charges or time-of-use tariffs are high, it often is. Interval data shows the answer.
It is the best source. Monthly bills show the peak but not how long it lasts, which decides the energy the battery needs.
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Tell us the site, the load and the runtime you need. Our Austin engineering team comes back with a configuration, a runtime estimate and a price.
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