Use case - Earn extra income

Earn extra income from your battery storage with Bnewable

We trade your battery storage's idle capacity on the market, so you earn extra income from capacity you already own.

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How other companies have earned extra income with Bnewable

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market risks for you; we absorb them all

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CAPEX for batteries and resources

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Multimarket

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What's holding your battery storage back from earning more

Self-consumption alone won't cover your solar investment

Self-consumption alone can mean a 10-year payback. On thin margins, every added revenue lever matters.

You're already paying for value you're not capturing

An unused grid connection is a paid-for asset. Electricity surplus loses value the moment prices go negative.

You don't want to build your own trading desk to get there

You see the opportunity, but hiring energy traders isn't something you or your company can take on.

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How Bnewable turns idle capacity into your extra income

Whenever your battery storage has spare capacity, we put it to work: trading on wholesale markets, correcting real-time imbalances, and getting paid by grid operators for standing ready or offering up capacity you're not using. Here's how each one works.

Real-time forecasting

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Dynamic capacity allocation

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Direct market access

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Integrated site control

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Real-time forecasting

Bnewable Voltana forecasts market prices alongside your own load and solar generation. Every charge and discharge decision is made against what the coming hours are likely to bring.

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Dynamic capacity allocation

Your battery has one capacity and several possible jobs on any given day. Bnewable Voltana splits that capacity between covering your site and bidding into the market, and shifts the split as conditions change.

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Direct market access

Bnewable participates in wholesale, balancing, flexibility, and capacity markets through our own BRP and BSP structure. That gives you income from markets you would otherwise need your own accreditation to reach.

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Integrated site control

Bnewable Voltana coordinates the battery with your solar installation and your industrial loads inside the limits your process allows. Your peak shaving and self-consumption stay protected while the leftover capacity goes to market.

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calculation example

How you earn with Bnewable's battery storage

Your earnings from Bnewable's battery storage aren't a single fixed number. Part of it is guaranteed, and part of it grows as market conditions shift in your favor. These figures are for illustration only. Your actual result depends on your site, your consumption pattern, and market conditions in a given year.

Energy trading example: a day of site load and battery use Line chart of an industrial site's load in kW over 24 hours. Between 7:00 and 9:00 the load peaks at 3,300 kW and the battery discharges to shave the peak. Between 11:00 and 15:00 solar output pushes net load down to -550 kW, exporting to the grid, and the battery charges from solar self-consumption. Around 18:00 an evening peak of about 2,450 kW is open for trading. The rest of the day the battery's free capacity is used for energy trading.

Testimonial

How Montea has cut their monthly electricity costs by 00% 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 of Montea speaking in a meeting room, with the Montea logo on the screen behind him

Start earning from your battery storage with Bnewable

Your project with Bnewable follows the Battery-as-a-Service model: you pay a fee only when the battery is actively lowering your electricity costs, and you keep the larger share of those savings. The rest of the time, Bnewable trades on the energy market using your battery, and you get a cut of that too. Either way, you reduce your energy costs and earn extra revenue, with no investment, and no extra staff required.

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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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FAQs about earning income from battery storage

No. Voltana runs both through the same optimisation engine. It forecasts your load, your on-site generation, and market prices, then calculates the value of every available option every 15 minutes, including peak shaving, self-consumption, day-ahead trading, imbalance trading, and grid fees. Based on that calculation, Voltana dispatches your battery storage system toward whichever option is worth the most at that moment, so local use and trading are optimized together as part of one decision.

No. Bnewable Voltana optimizes for the net result, weighing the savings on your bill against the market revenue at every moment. An hour where peak shaving is worth more than trading is an hour the battery storage system shaves. The cost of operating the battery storage system, including the charges on every kilowatt-hour it takes from the grid, is included in that calculation.

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The battery storage system earns because of your site. Your connection, your load, and your space are what allow it to sit behind the meter and reach the markets, and a system that only served the market would be built somewhere else. Sharing the revenue keeps both sides pulling the same way over a contract that runs for years.

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Secure income from your battery storage with Bnewable, every year again

Contact us to explore how Bnewable turns your idle capacity on-site into extra income, every year again.