Agriculture
Why farms benefit most from storage
A farm has a distinctive load profile: a high base load for cooling and ventilation, plus short, extreme peaks when powerful machines run in parallel. Those few peak hours drive the demand charge on metered tariffs — while animal welfare and harvest quality depend on an uninterrupted power supply.
- Milking systems and milk cooling keep running — even during outages
- Feeding automation and barn ventilation stay powered
- Grain drying and irrigation without expensive load peaks
- Your own PV power becomes usable at night and in winter
How it works
Three effects, one system
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Cap load peaks
The battery steps in automatically when several loads start at once. The grid demand peak drops — and with it the demand charge that a few hours per year would otherwise define.
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Backup power for critical systems
If the grid fails, the battery takes over the critical loads — on the OmniCube, according to the manufacturer's datasheet, with a switchover time below 20 milliseconds.
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Maximise self-consumption
Surplus PV power from barn or hall roofs is stored instead of exported cheaply — replacing expensive grid power exactly when it is needed.
The right technology
Depending on the load profile we deploy anything from residential batteries to industrial storage. The workhorse for larger farms is the OmniCube A215 (values per manufacturer datasheet):
- 215 kWh capacity, 100 kW output
- Backup switchover < 20 ms (with STS)
- Operates from −30 °C to +55 °C, IP55
- 2-hour fire-resistant enclosure, aerosol suppression system
- Expandable by paralleling up to 10 units
View the OmniCube industrial storage
We assess, free of charge and without obligation, what a battery or PV solution would deliver for your operation: load profile, sizing, subsidies and payback — based on your numbers, not generic promises.