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Metals, materials, and recycling

Battery storage for metals, materials, and recycling: cut your electricity costs while your operations keep running

Metals, materials, and recycling sites face a double challenge: electrifying to meet sustainability targets, while a demand charge based on just a few minutes of peak load keeps climbing. Every process you electrify pushes that peak higher. Bnewable's battery storage system caps it instead.

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How Bnewable's battery storage solution adapts to your activity

Lower electricity costs at €0 investment

You're under constant pressure to cut costs, without additional investment or complex changes to your operations. At the same time, fluctuating electricity prices and expensive load peaks are eating into your margin. Building the solution yourself would tie up exactly the capital and expertise you're trying to avoid. With Bnewable's Battery-as-a-Service model, we take care of purchasing and installing the battery storage system at your site, and all operational headaches that might come with it. Through peak shaving, self-consumption optimization, and real-time energy trading, we lower your grid fees while your investment stays €0.

More value from your grid connection, now and later

Flexibility has become a requirement, not a bonus. Grid operators are rebuilding tariffs, connections, and exemptions around it, at every level. If your industrial site can't demonstrate flexibility, you risk losing benefits you currently rely on. Bnewable's battery storage system makes your site flexible by design, so you're covered no matter how the rules change.

One point of contact that handles everything for you

A battery storage project typically requires coordinating 15 to 20 different parties, and that's before accounting for regulatory complexity. Managing that alongside your day-to-day business is complex. We take care of it all: planning, permitting, installation, operation, maintenance, and market optimization, as a single point of contact built around your operational schedule. Your production keeps running as usual. If the battery storage system ever underperforms or fails, it's our responsibility to fix it.

How Bnewable reduces your electricity costs

A battery storage system only saves you money if someone is actively managing it: deciding when to charge, when to discharge, and when to hold. That someone is us. Instead of owning a battery, you simply get the results of having one.

Peak shaving

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Solar power optimization

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Virtual grid expansion

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Energy trading

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Peak shaving

Lower your capacity tariff with a battery that covers your demand peaks instead of the grid, without any change to your operations.

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Solar power optimization

Store your solar surplus instead of feeding it back at a lower rate or losing it, so you can use your green energy in the evening too.

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Virtual grid expansion

Bnewable's battery takes over when your site needs more power than your grid connection can handle. You get the extra capacity of a grid upgrade, without the years of waiting or the costs that come with it.

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Energy trading

Bnewable's energy management system, Voltana trades your battery's flexibility on the energy markets, adding a revenue stream on top of your savings, automatically.

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What other businesses like about working with Bnewable

Bnewable took up the roles of both an energy- and project director for us. From the building permit to negotiations with Fluvius; they absorbed all the risks we faced.

Dirk van Buggenhout

Chief Sustainability Officer, Montea

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Battery-as-a-Service

How does Bnewable
work with metals, materials
& recycling companies?

With the Battery-as-a-Service model, we take care of everything. We install and finance a battery on your site that supports your operations and meets your energy needs.

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We project your potential savings

We size the battery to your consumption, peak loads, solar generation, and grid connection, then calculate what you'd save before you commit to anything.

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We invest in the battery, you keep your capital

Bnewable covers the full cost of the system. You provide the space and the grid connection; your capital stays in your core business.

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We build it, you run your business as usual

Energy storage comes with complex permitting. We handle planning, permits, and installation, while your operations continue as usual.

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We operate it and absorb all risks for you

We keep the battery running at peak efficiency, cutting demand peaks, maximizing your solar use, or earning market revenue. Maintenance is on us too.

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Lower electricity costs while your production keeps running as usual

Contact us to explore how Bnewable's battery storage system can work for your industrial business.