Behind-the-Meter Battery Storage for Large-Load Facilities
Scarp Grid Partners helps commercial, industrial, municipal, and fabrication facilities deploy battery energy storage systems (BESS) that manage electric costs, improve power quality, support operations, and access grid-service value.
From site analysis through commercial structuring, utility coordination, development, and long-term operations.
Large-load facilities face power challenges.
Power Quality
Sensitive loads require stable power. Load swings, voltage issues, and operational disturbances can affect facility performance.
Demand-Based Cost Exposure
Capacity, transmission, distribution, and peak-demand charges can make up a major portion of the monthly electric bill.
Missed Grid Revenue
Flexible battery capacity may create value through grid-service participation where available.
Resilience Requirements
Storage can support critical-load strategy and operational continuity where technically appropriate.
Utility Service Constraints
BESS can help manage site load, reduce peak demand, and defer or avoid costly service upgrades where feasible.
Ownership Complexity
Hosts need clear commercial options, including direct ownership, CapEx, no-upfront-cost structures, and shared-value structures.
A behind-the-meter strategy built around your facility.
SGP manages the full BESS development lifecycle. We coordinate the technical, utility, commercial, tax, ownership, and operating strategy required to make battery storage practical and financeable for large-load facilities.
Site + Load Analysis
Evaluate utility bills, interval data, tariff structure, facility operations, service size, electrical infrastructure, available site area, critical loads, and BESS operating use cases.
Economic + Dispatch Modeling
Model demand charge reduction, electric bill savings, grid-service revenue, power quality use cases, battery sizing, operating costs, and projected net economics.
Commercial Structure
Determine whether the project should be host-owned, third-party-owned, or structured through a site lease, shared-savings, or revenue-sharing model.
Utility + Technical Coordination
Coordinate utility requirements, interconnection strategy, metering, controls, non-export requirements where applicable, operating parameters, and grid-facing documentation.
Deployment + Long-Term Operations
Manage development, procurement, construction, commissioning, dispatch strategy, grid-service participation, O&M coordination, and long-term asset performance.
BESS Can Support Facility Economics and Grid Value
Power Quality Support
Quality power for sensitive loads is critical. BESS may help manage load swings, voltage issues, equipment trips, short-duration disturbances, and power-quality challenges where properly designed.
Electric Bill Management
BESS can be dispatched to reduce peak demand, manage demand-based charges, and improve utility bill performance under the applicable tariff.
Grid-Service Participation
Qualified systems may participate in demand response, capacity programs, frequency regulation, or other grid-service opportunities where available and where site operations support participation.
Resilience Support
Storage can support operational continuity and critical-load strategy where the system is designed with appropriate controls, transfer equipment, and backup architecture.
Grid Support
BESS can help large energy users support local grid reliability, reduce peak strain, and coordinate site load in a way that can benefit the host and grid where applicable.
Long-Term Asset Value
A properly structured BESS can become a tax-incentivized, revenue-capable infrastructure asset that may improve the long-term economics of a large-load facility.
Incentives
Standalone BESS may qualify for significant federal tax incentives, including an investment tax credit with potential bonus adders for domestic content and energy community locations, plus accelerated depreciation where eligible.
Tax credit and depreciation benefits are project-specific and depend on ownership structure, placed-in-service timing, tax basis, applicable IRS rules, labor compliance, domestic content, FEOC/PFE considerations, equipment eligibility, and the project owner's tax eligibility and tax liability. Final tax treatment should be reviewed by qualified tax counsel or the project owner's tax advisor.
Load shifting and demand-based charge reduction.
Capacity markets, frequency regulation, and energy arbitrage.
$250 per kWh for eligible BESS projects ≤ 5 MW
Direct Ownership CapEx, and No-Upfront-Cost Third-Party Ownership Options
SGP can structure projects around the host's capital strategy. Some hosts prefer to own the BESS directly. Others prefer a third-party-owned structure where SGP or a capital partner owns the battery, leases site rights from the host, and shares value through negotiated terms. Both models have trade-offs depending on capital availability, tax position, operating preferences, and risk tolerance.
Host-Owned BESS
The host funds and owns the battery directly, retaining control of the asset and the ability to capture available incentives, depreciation, electric bill savings, resilience value, and potential grid-service revenues. This structure is best for hosts with available capital, tax appetite, and a preference for long-term ownership.
Third-Party-Owned BESS
SGP or a capital partner funds and owns the battery, leases site and electrical integration rights from the host, and manages development, dispatch, monitoring, and long-term operations through a negotiated commercial structure. This option can reduce or eliminate upfront capital while allowing the host to share in savings, lease payments, resilience value, or grid-service revenues.
Integrated Workstreams
From site review to operating assets, SGP coordinates technical, utility, commercial, tax, ownership, and operating workstreams in parallel so behind-the-meter BESS projects can move efficiently from early evaluation to operating asset.
Strategy Alignment
A focused strategy call to align on facility goals, cost exposure, operating priorities, ownership preference, and first-stage project direction.
Load + Tariff Review
Review utility bills, interval data, demand patterns, tariff structure, energy charges, demand charges, service size, and operating constraints.
Site + Utility Review
Review site layout, electrical infrastructure, utility service, interconnection path, metering needs, controls, non-export requirements where applicable, and available equipment locations.
Commercial Framework
Develop a preliminary value-stack model, ownership structure, site lease or shared-savings framework, tax-credit strategy, and operating-cost assumptions.
Development Roadmap
Prepare the development plan, project packaging roadmap, compliance documentation plan, procurement path, utility coordination path, and implementation timeline.
Deployment + Operations
Coordinate development, commissioning, handoff, asset management, dispatch strategy, O&M coordination, grid-service participation, and long-term operating performance.
Transparent development with expert execution.
Scarp Grid Partners can work through a transparent development model that gives the project owner or host clear visibility into project economics, commercial structure, major decisions, and implementation strategy while benefiting from specialized battery storage expertise, efficient project delivery, and disciplined cost management.
Partner with SGP
Our model is flexible by design. SGP builds with industrial-scale technology and construction partners to support turnkey BESS development, financing, procurement, construction, and operating strategies for large-load facilities. We can work with host customers, developers, EPCs, engineers, and project partners through direct ownership, shared-value structures, or other commercial models.
We are interested in building relationships with experienced firms and professionals in markets where large-load energy infrastructure and BESS deployment are expanding, including:
Our model is flexible. We can bring qualified regional partners to the table, or coordinate with the client's preferred partners where appropriate. If a host, project sponsor, capital partner, or facility owner already has preferred contractors, lenders, engineers, equipment suppliers, or construction partners, SGP can work within that existing team structure. The objective is to build the best project-specific team around the host site, utility requirements, operating constraints, capital strategy, and long-term energy goals.
Ready to evaluate battery storage for your large-load facility?
Scarp Grid Partners can review your site, utility bills, interval data, tariff structure, electrical infrastructure, operating constraints, ownership preference, and commercial goals to determine whether a behind-the-meter BESS makes sense.