One site, then many, then the network.
We group what CESS does by the shape of what you run rather than by industry. Find your step on the ladder below, then see what the battery would earn you, driver by driver.
Three steps. We will tell you which one we are on.
Each step is a different reader with a different reason to buy. Our pilot runs on the first one today, and the second and third are where CESS is built to go.
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Step 1 · Running today
One site, more solar than it can use
A factory with its own array that, at midday or at the weekend, makes more than the plant can take. The excess is curtailed and never shows up as a loss, while the site still buys grid power on-peak every evening.
- What CESS is to you
- A controller for one site: Forecast, Dispatch and Recover running your battery against your tariff.
- What we can show you
- Our pilot in Bangkok, where about 30% of the array's output was being curtailed before CESS connected.
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Step 2 · Talk to us
Several sites, one head office
A group running five to fifty sites has as many electricity bills, inverter brands and contractor dashboards, and no way to set one site against another. Head office still has to answer for all of them, on cost and in the sustainability report.
- What CESS is to you
- The same metering, forecasting and dispatch at every site, so each one is measured the same way.
- What we can show you
- Plainly: CESS runs at one site today. If you run several, the audit starts with one of them, and we will tell you what the rest would take.
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Step 3 · Where this goes
The network those sites form
Today a CESS battery pays for itself on the bill it sits behind. Every CESS site is also metered, forecast and dispatched by software from day one, which is what a network needs from each of its members. It pays back on your bill; it is ready for the network.
Three ways the battery earns. Two of them need no solar.
Our model of the pilot site splits the monthly saving into three drivers. Your mix will be different, and the feasibility model works it out from your own billing data before you commit anything.
Solar recovery
Stores what the array makes but the site cannot use, and spends it on-peak in place of grid power. The largest of the three in our pilot model.
฿6,441 – 9,000 a month, modelled
PJJ RecoverPeak shaving
A demand charge is set by your single highest interval of the month. The battery discharges through the moments that would set it, so the peak you pay for comes in lower.
฿2,204 – 4,784 a month, modelled
Peak shaving and the demand chargeEnergy arbitrage
Charges when grid power is cheap and uses it when it is dear, across the on-peak and off-peak rates of a Thai time-of-use tariff.
฿1,138 a month, modelled
Arbitrage without solarModelled at the 120 kWh / 60 kW system our engine sized for the pilot site, from the site's own metered load. Ranges run from a conservative floor to an upper estimate. The investment case shows how each driver was modelled.
No list of industries, and that is deliberate.
Two factories in the same industry can have nothing in common on the meter: different shifts, different machines, different roofs. What decides the saving is your load, not your sector, so we model it from your own data rather than from a page about your industry.Find out which step your site is on.
Twelve months of billing data, and we will model your load, size the system and show you the whole financial case, including when the answer is not to build.
Or reach us at solarbuddies@pjjsolutions.tech