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Energy & resilience
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Energy Supply and Storage Solutions
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West Court Retreat
Finchampstead, BerkshireUp to
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The Hotelier Review
West Court Retreat
Inside the energy centre.
A look inside the container housing the Victron energy centre at West Court Retreat — the paralleled inverters and BYD battery stack that carry the hotel and spa through peaks and outages alike.
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Power that never blinks. Bills that quietly fall. An energy centre hidden in your own grounds.
Hidden in plain sight
The pergola that hides a power station at your hotel.
Design & estates
The pergola that hides a power station at your hotel.
A bioclimatic pergola whose mirrored glass reflects the gardens, so guests see landscape, not infrastructure.
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When the site scales up
Designed, delivered and operated.
Our team develops the most competitive solution using the global leader in energy storage, the BYD MC Cube. We design, deliver and operate — with comprehensive O&M packages and guarantees to de-risk your investment.
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Two megawatt-hours of BYD storage. One Victron core. Assembled, delivered, and switched on.
BYD Battery-Box Premium Partner · Victron Energy systems · Independent Connection Provider
Reader offer
Book your survey by 30 September and your first year of service and monitoring is on us.
We walk the estate, inspect the plant room, review the car park and survey the grounds — then model the savings, the resilience case and the pergola concept on your numbers.
The money page
Most sites never see the market they are buying from.
Flat-rate contracts feel safe, but you pay a premium every hour, all year.
A day on site, in kW
Peak served jointly by grid and battery
6am8am10amNoon2pm5pm7pm10pm
Grid supply
Battery, beyond the ceiling
Incoming supply limit
More power, starting now
Bigger incoming supplies are our home turf: as an Independent Connection Provider, Always Energy designs and delivers grid upgrades directly — no waiting at the back of someone else's queue.
Even a well-run upgrade takes time to consent and construct, and ambitions rarely wait. The battery closes that gap: discharging alongside the grid at busy times, it lets the site draw more power at peak from day one. Once the new connection is energised, the pair work harder together.
Spotlight — illustrative
West Court Retreat banks £54–63k a year
A coordinated energy centre runs this Home Counties hotel and spa through peaks and outages alike — banking £54–63k a year in savings and grid revenue.
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The car park starts earning its keep
Pumps are out. Plugs are in.A hotel car park is the perfect charging forecourt: cars sit for hours, drivers pay for convenience, and demand arrives on its own four wheels. What usually stalls the plan is capacity.
The battery solves both halves. It creates the headroom to add more bays, and fills them with energy bought in the cheap half-hours or made on site — sold on at forecourt rates. Every unit sold shortens the payback on the entire system.
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The battery inside every system we build.
BYD MC Cube · Industrial Flex
Scalable, one cabinet at a time.
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Blade Battery · Power System
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Power Conversion System Options
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Out in the field
From one cabinet to a field of them.
We can scale from 0.5 megawatt to over 200 megawatt hours.
Inside the factory
Built on the Blade cell.
Every system we install is built on BYD's Blade cell — lithium iron phosphate chemistry produced on fully automated lines to automotive standards.
It's the same cell that passes the nail-penetration test without fire or thermal runaway — the safety standard we hold from a single node to a utility bank.
BYD MC Cube
The world's first BESS with the Blade Battery.
BYD's own film on the MC Cube — the first energy storage system to integrate the Blade cell, and the platform behind the utility-scale banks we install.
Why we standardise on the Blade cell
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The Blade cell passes the nail-penetration test — the industry's harshest abuse trial — without fire or thermal runaway. It is the reason we are comfortable placing storage inside buildings full of guests, patients and equipment. See the manufacturing and nail-penetration films below.
Engineered not to burn.
See the Blade Battery madeThe nail-penetration test, on film
A steel nail driven straight through a live cell — the most rigorous thermal-runaway trial in the industry. Conventional lithium-ion cells reach hundreds of degrees and catch fire; the Blade cell stays cool enough to touch.
Watch it happen — this is why we specify LFP for buildings full of guests.
A BYD Premium Partner — supplied, installed and commissioned in-house.
Genuine BYD hardware, warranty-backed, integrated with Victron control and monitored for the life of the install.
Energy. Anytime. Anywhere.
Designed in the Netherlands. Trusted worldwide.
In the early 70s, our founder, Reinout Vader, took apart a dodgy, borrowed inverter and asked himself how he could improve it. His solution started Victron, now one of the world's foremost developers of power products for marine, RV, off-grid, industrial, and speciality vehicle use.
Engineered to outlast extremes, our open, modular systems provide the freedom to customise and control your energy supply without limits or lock-in. That's why millions of users worldwide trust us to keep things running, no matter where they are or what they do.
Victron Energy · Hybrid power · UPS & genset
The hybrid generator revolution.
Victron inverter/chargers, lithium batteries and the VRM monitoring platform turn a generator into a hybrid system — cutting fuel, emissions, noise and service intervals by as much as 80%, while delivering uninterrupted clean power on or off grid.
For smaller sites up to 2 MW, three-phase, Victron is the intelligent core that runs the load and holds the supply the instant the grid drops.
Victron MultiPlus 20kW
The heart of the Always Energy node.
One inverter is one node. Each MultiPlus supplies 240 volts at 100 amps, single phase — the core that runs the load and holds the supply, paralleled up as the site grows.
20 kW
Per node
240 V
Single phase
100 A
Continuous
Single-phase supply
Three nodes, single phase.
Three MultiPlus nodes wired single phase — 60 kW at 240 volts, 300 amps combined.
Scaled to three-phase
Paralleled to scale.
One MultiPlus per phase, paralleled into a 415 V three-phase node — and stacked in threes as the site grows.
Scaled to three-phase
Paralleled to scale.
One MultiPlus per phase, paralleled into a 415 V three-phase node — and stacked in threes as the site grows.
Four corners, one grid
Micro grid.
Four paralleled clusters fan out to the corners — one containerised microgrid, scaled to 1.2 MW.
60 kW
Combined output
240 V
Single phase
300 A
Combined
60 kW
Combined output
415 V
3-phase
240 V
Per phase
100 A
Across all 3 phases
300 kW
Combined output
415 V
3-phase
240 V
Per phase
500 A
Across all 3 phases
0.3 MW
System output
15 ×
MultiPlus nodes
415 V
3-phase
500 A
Combined current
Micro grid.
Your Victron expert
Tekidan · Certified installer
Daniel Keeton — Founder, Tekidan
One of the world's leading Victron technicians.
Danny engineers every Always Energy system from the ground up — pushing Victron hardware to its limits and building it to outlast the grid.
30 yrs
Electrical experience
350+
Victron installs
1999
On the tools since
Certified installer for
Victron Energy
Fronius
BYD
On site with Danny
The Largest Off Grid Victron install in the UK.
This timber yard in England has changed from running huge diesel generators all day every day to a huge lithium and Victron Energy system. Using a combination of solar and generator the owner has significantly reduced his costs, and the system has kept up with the large power requirements of the machines as well as the house.
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Finchampstead, BerkshireUp to
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Reduction in electricity bills
Cut your electric bill with arbitrage, peak shaving and battery storage.
Never suffer a power cut again.
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Systems we've built
Victron + BYD, installed & commissionedClick any photo on the globe
to open the project.
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VRM — remote monitoring
Every node, watched over for life.
Victron's VRM platform lets us monitor state of charge, generator run-time, temperatures and faults across every installation — fine-tuning performance, pre-empting issues and reporting savings, wherever the site is.
Who we work with
Owners, general managers and estate directors.
The commercial case differs by property. The engineering does not.
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A power partner for architects
Power is now a design decision.
Design energy performance in from day one — solar, storage, heat pumps and EV charging as one system, hidden in a mirrored enclosure.
Mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work
Designed in, not bolted onOne power partner across every stage — so connection, storage and generation travel with the scheme instead of chasing it.
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The team behind the record installs
People & proofThe previous record, on film
Victron Energy filmed the record install our designer delivered before West Court Retreat surpassed it. Twelve minutes of independent, checkable evidence of the standards your projects will inherit.
Three ways to start
Working together
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How we value your work
The design integration fee
Integrating an energy centre into a scheme is real work — coordination, planning consents, client counsel. Our partner programme recognises it with a design integration fee: declared to your client, documented in a simple agreement, with a published schedule by project type. Ask for the one-page summary.
Bring us a live scheme — free power feasibility, in writing, within days.
Book a feasibility survey→Free site survey
We'll come to you.
We walk the estate, inspect the plant room, review the car park and survey the grounds — then provide an estimate of the savings, the resilience case and the pergola concept, modelled on your numbers. Or start with a quick call.
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Reader offer
Book your free site survey by 30 September and get your first year of service and monitoring on us. Subject to survey and standard service terms.
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David will be in touch within one working day to arrange a visit. If it's urgent, call 07894 854 897.
Who we survey for