We offer comprehensive energy monitoring and assessment services for businesses in and around Inverness and across the North of Scotland.
Understanding how, when and where you use energy in your business is the foundation of effective energy management. Proterra Energy’s Business Energy Monitoring and Assessment service provides detailed insight into your energy consumption, helping you reduce costs, optimise renewable energy systems, and make informed decisions about battery storage and backup generation. From farms and rural businesses to commercial and industrial sites, our data-driven approach ensures energy systems are correctly sized, efficiently operated and economically justified.
Proterra Energy can carry out Energy Assessments for businesses of all sizes and types across Scotland and provide short or long term monitoring. This is a day-to-day element of the work we do for Clients when installing renewable energy systems and backup generators.
Knowing how you use energy is critical to managing your costs and we can help you with this.
When you are installing renewable energy systems to offset your use, whether that is a hydro scheme, solar, battery storage, or even back-up generation for grid outages, it is important to understand how much energy you use, and when you use it.
This allows us to design and build the most suitable system for your site, it helps us to understand the maintenance and servicing support you are likely to need. This is especially important where energy offset is one of the key aims of your project.
You may have higher energy bills than you would like, or think you should have. In this case we can use the same techniques to understand the energy that you are using and where and when it is being used.
The level of assessment can vary from reviewing a year's worth of electricity bills through to fitting energy meters coupled with data loggers that will monitor the electricity entering your property.
This is best done over a period so as to get an averaged set of data.
The level of assessment can vary from reviewing a year’s worth of electricity bills through to fitting energy meters coupled with data loggers that will monitor the electricity entering your property. This is best done over a period so as to get an averaged set of data.
In some cases we do this to look at a site with existing generation to see how effective their offset of energy bills has been. Or to see whether battery storage can be installed to make better use of any renewable energy generated that has been exported for £/kWhr that could have used on site and saved £££/kWhr.
This is especially the case where renewable systems were built in the FIT (feed-in tariffs) era and rising energy costs mean it is now as important to use the electricity on site as to export it. FITs are still paid, but the offset of using your own electricity rather than exporting it for a low fee and buying it back 20 minutes later for 3 times the price is far more beneficial.
In some cases, for larger commercial customers, we have been able to use energy monitoring to segment their site, looking for pockets of high energy use. Once found these can be assessed in more detail, understand what is using the power and whether it can be economised.
We often use energy monitoring where a Client requires a backup generator. By understanding their peaks of power as well as their use over a period we can then size the back up generator, and understand fuelling requirements.
For larger sites, where they may have specific energy hungry processes or equipment that are not a priority, we design the back up changeover system to isolate these, so that they don't need to be fed by the generator saving on fuel use and the capital costs of an unnecessarily large generator.
For larger sites, where they may have specific energy hungry processes or equipment that are not a priority, we design the back up changeover system to isolate these, so that they don’t need to be fed by the generator saving on fuel use and the capital costs of an unnecessarily large generator.
After all as an energy aware farmer once said “the cheapest kW of electricity is the one that you don’t buy!”
Proterra Energy’s Energy Monitoring & Assessment service provides the insight needed to reduce energy costs, improve renewable energy performance, and design efficient backup power systems. By understanding real energy usage patterns, we help clients make smarter, more economical energy decisions.
An energy monitoring and assessment service involves analysing how much electricity a site uses, when it is used, and where it is consumed. Proterra Energy uses electricity bills, energy meters and data loggers to build an accurate picture of energy usage, helping to reduce costs and design better renewable and backup power systems.
Energy monitoring ensures renewable systems such as solar PV, hydro, battery storage or backup generators are correctly sized. Understanding real energy demand and peak loads allows Proterra Energy to design systems that maximise on-site energy use, improve return on investment, and avoid unnecessary capital costs.
Yes. By identifying when and where electricity is being used, energy monitoring can highlight inefficiencies, high-consumption equipment, and opportunities to reduce usage. Many clients see savings simply by understanding and adjusting how energy is used on site.
In many cases, yes. Energy monitoring can assess how effective your existing renewable system is at offsetting energy bills. For systems installed during the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) era, monitoring often reveals opportunities to add battery storage and increase the use of self-generated electricity rather than exporting it at a lower rate.
The monitoring period depends on the site and objectives. Some assessments can be completed using historical electricity bills, while others involve installing meters and collecting data over weeks or months to capture typical and peak usage patterns.
By understanding peak power demand and overall energy usage, Proterra Energy can correctly size backup generators and determine fuel requirements. Monitoring also allows non-essential loads to be isolated, reducing generator size, fuel consumption, and long-term operating costs.
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