Energy Storage
One way resort and hotel owners can tackle their energy challenges is by installing a battery-based energy-storage system, a device that stores energy in a giant battery for later use. A battery energy storage system (BESS) or battery storage power station is a type of energy storage technology that uses a group of batteries to store electrical energy. Many BESS units operate on renewable energy, like solar or wind, and offer various storage capabilities that can be scaled to the size of the hotel. A BESS system can be coupled with an existing solar system or connected directly to the grid.
What Resort Energy Does
Project Assessment
The first step is to conduct a feasibility assessment. This will help uncover a system’s potential benefits, challenges and life cycle, with a unique site in mind. Financial, resiliency and sustainability opportunities will all vary from place to place.
It can be easy to overlook details at the beginning of the process, but missed details often result in increased costs and project delays.
System Eligibility
The next step (although it often happens in conjunction with the feasibility assessment) is to complete a 30% system design.
​This involves laying out the basic types and sizes of technologies involved, their intended locations, the methods for interconnecting them within a microgrid and a plan for working with the local utility.
The goal here is to help set the course for future detailed design considerations
Financial Planning
Before beginning the full design process, it is also crucial to conduct financial planning and develop a cost estimate for the project.
These are critical to a system’s feasibility and can illuminate opportunities for third-party financing.
It is important to lay out all budgeting guidelines, so as to accommodate such assistance and equipment purchasing.
Project Management
Being vendor agnostic allows our team to bid projects and access competitive market pricing.
We then screen contractors, negotiate contracts and oversee your projects from concept to completion.
We also offer ongoing reporting and asset management.
Full Design
Once these steps have been taken and the logistics of the system have been determined, it is time to carry out the full design, moving forward from 30% to complete blueprints and documentation, including a utility interconnection agreement.