What might a system cost?
Explore a capital-purchase budget with solar, battery storage and additional site allowances shown separately.
For garden-centre owners & managers
What could solar and battery storage save your garden centre?
Your roof, your electricity bill, your next business decision. Explore the cost of a possible system, potential electricity savings and simple payback before taking the next step.
Explore my garden centre’s ROINo contact details needed. See your results onscreen.
An illustrative calculator with assumptions you can change.
Solar PV + battery storageA first picture.
A better-informed conversation.
A better-informed conversation.
01 A possible project budget
02 Potential electricity savings
03 Simple payback
Built around your businessRetail floors.
Retail floors.
Busy kitchens.
Seasonal demands.
From retail lighting and restaurant refrigeration to changes in opening hours and trading, your garden centre has its own electricity-use pattern.
Start by putting your electricity costs into the calculator. Adjust the proposed solar and battery sizes, then explore how the assumptions change the result.
Site suitability, roof space and the way you use energy still need assessment before a system can be designed.
See what the numbers could meanThree questions.
Three questions.
A clearer starting point.
What could change on the electricity bill?
Use your annual electricity charges and unit rate to explore a potential saving, with the assumptions visible.
What could simple payback look like?
Compare the project budget with the annual energy benefit after a running-cost allowance. See how changing the inputs affects the picture.
75%
Client share of eligible
BESS trading profits
Explore another potential source of value
A battery can have a role beyond onsite energy use.
Eligible battery energy storage arrangements may offer a 75% client share of trading profits, subject to agreed terms.
The calculator lets you explore this separately using an editable trading-profit assumption. It is kept outside the electricity-savings and payback totals until the combined operating plan is assessed.
See the trading-share illustrationStart with your electricity bill
You don’t need a project specification to begin.
Have these two figures ready. You can use the editable example system sizes while you explore.
£
Annual electricity usage charges
For one site and one electricity supply, excluding VAT and fixed charges.
p
Electricity unit rate
The price per kWh on your bill. Use a weighted average if you have more than one rate.
Not sure of a figure? Open the calculator and try the clearly labelled example first.
Before you start
A few useful answers.
Do I have to give my contact details?
No. You can enter your figures and see the calculator results without providing a name, email address or telephone number.
Is this a quotation or a guaranteed return?
No. It is an illustrative scenario based on your inputs and editable example assumptions. The payback figure is simple payback, rather than a full lifetime investment return. A site assessment and agreed scope are needed for a quotation.
Does the calculator include battery trading profits?
Yes, as a separate illustration of a 75% client share of trading profit available to share. The profit assumption is editable and is not a forecast. Eligibility, costs and the operating arrangement need to be agreed; this illustration is excluded from the energy-savings and payback totals.
What happens after I’ve explored the numbers?
The calculator offers an Energy Opportunity Review as the next step. In this demonstration, a clearly labelled CRM form lets you create a test enquiry using invented details. No customer messages are sent and no meeting is booked.
Your garden centre. Your assumptions.Put your own figures
Put your own figures
into the picture.
Explore a solar and battery scenario built around your electricity costs, then decide which questions are worth taking further.
Explore my garden centre’s ROINo contact details needed. No enquiry is sent by the calculator.