Valley Logistics Hub
Commercial · Cold-chain warehousing
A high-consumption refrigerated distribution facility bleeding money to peak summer demand charges every billing cycle.
A 1.2 MW roof-mount PV array paired with a 500 kWh LFP battery configured specifically for peak shaving against the utility's demand window.
84% reduction in demand charges and a blended ROI reached in 4.2 years — with the array still producing above its year-one model.
The Valley Logistics Hub runs compressors around the clock, and the utility's summer demand charges were doing more damage to the P&L than the energy charges themselves. A flat rooftop the size of a city block was sitting empty above it.
We modeled the facility's fifteen-minute demand profile before designing anything. The array was sized to the roof; the 500 kWh battery was sized to the demand curve — enough to flatten the afternoon peaks that the utility was pricing hardest, and no more. Oversizing the battery would have added cost the model couldn't justify.
Two years in, module-level monitoring shows the array producing above its year-one projection, and the demand-charge line on the facility's bill has stayed down. This is the entire SunWright thesis in one building: attack the expensive part of the bill with engineering, then prove it with the numbers.
| System size | 1.2 MW roof-mount PV |
|---|---|
| Storage | 500 kWh LFP, peak-shave dispatch |
| Demand charge cut | 84% |
| ROI | 4.2 years |
| Modules | 2,140 × 560 W monocrystalline |
| Status | Operational · monitored |
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