How to Temporarily Boost Your Grid Connection With Mobile Batteries

Whether you ordered a new machine for your factory or are building a new facility for your business, the grid connection needs to be strong enough. If the grid connection is not, you’ll have to find a way to boost it. 

Often, this is not possible due to ‘grid congestion’. Because you’re not the only one looking to boost the grid connection, the electricity grid is jammed. Grid congestion is an increasingly urgent issue, creating roadblocks that slow down business growth. One major consequence of this congestion is the rapid rise in grid tariffs, driven by the need to build out and reinforce our entire grid infrastructure. 

Today, we’ll focus on a straightforward solution to physically upgrade your grid connection. It can be done tomorrow. There’s no need of being on any waiting list. All it takes is a parking spot or two. Let’s focus on: batteries behind the meter.   

The Grid Congestion Challenge

Before we dive in, a short summary of grid congestion. Grid congestion happens when the demand or supply of electricity at a given location exceeds what the grid can handle. This issue is becoming more frequent as the adoption of renewable energy sources like solar and wind grows. These sources often produce power when grid demand is low, resulting in excess supply that can overwhelm the system. To keep the grid balanced, operators sometimes have to curtail renewable energy production, undermining our sustainability efforts and causing financial losses. 

Grid congestion affects businesses in several ways: 

• Curtailment of solar fields: When solar farms generate more electricity than the grid can manage, they may be shut down, wasting valuable renewable energy. 

• Requests to reduce power usage: Businesses are asked to reduce their power usage in certain timeframes, to avoid congestion or blackouts. 

• Waiting list to get a grid connection: New companies often struggle to secure the necessary grid connections, creating barriers to economic growth and innovation. 

The quick and flexible relieve: mobile batteries

Batteries offer a flexible and effective way to manage local grid congestion. By storing extra energy when there is a lot of energy available and releasing it when you need it most, batteries act as a buffer. Without expanding your grid connection, you can boost the grid connection by smoothing out high and low power supply and demand.  

To speed up the deployment and maximize their impact, batteries are ideally placed ‘behind the meter’. In that case they’re installed on your side of the grid connection. This setup allows you to directly control your energy use. This boosts the grid connection without being dependent on the grid during peak periods. Even better, it helps solve local congestion in your neighborhood. 

Solve it tomorrow: rent a battery

Businesses are best off starting small. To keep it affordable and make data-based decisions, you start by renting a battery. This can be placed wherever on your location, without the need for long permitting processes.  Skoon helps finding the best fitting mobile rental battery.

Using the real data from this battery, you build the business case to decide what the next step is. Take into account in which seasons the battery is needed, for how many years and what size it should be.  

With that information, you can confidently take the to invest in a more permanent battery. These permanent installations are designed to tackle structural grid congestion that occurs consistently rather than seasonally or occasionally. By continuously buffering energy at the site, stationary batteries provide a long-term solution, making them ideal for businesses or locations with persistent congestion challenges. 

Conclusion

Grid congestion is a growing challenge for all of us, but it doesn’t have to limit business growth. By harnessing the power of batteries, you can boost your grid connection and mitigate congestion without costly grid expansions. Batteries provide the flexibility to store excess energy and deliver it when needed, helping to balance the grid and reduce congestion. 

Whether you’re facing ongoing congestion or need a temporary fix, batteries offer a scalable and adaptable solution that aligns with sustainability goals. By selecting the right battery solution for your specific needs, you can contribute to a more resilient, efficient, and sustainable energy system. 

For more information on how Skoon Energy can help you tackle grid congestion with our innovative battery solutions, contact us!