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Our mission: cut your electricity bill by over 50%.

Battery storage, solar and smart control — energy supply and storage solutions that pay for themselves.

Solar or wind farm? Store energy by day and sell it into the peak-price evening — turning surplus generation into considerably higher profits.

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West Court Retreat

Finchampstead, Berkshire

Hotels and country estates
Pond at West Court Retreat
Afternoon tea
Swimming pool
Dining room
Fireplace
Sunday roast
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The cost of unreliable power

Soaring bills. A surge that fries the kitchen. A blackout mid-wedding.

We make sure none of it reaches your guests.

Energy worthy of the estate.
An experience worthy of your guests.

West Court Retreat

Finchampstead, Berkshire
Up to
0%
Reduction in electricity bills

Cut your electric bill with arbitrage, peak shaving and battery storage.

Never suffer a power cut again.

Grid
Solar
Generator
Victron MultiPlus 48/20k/250 inverter/charger
A Pratic pergola over a terrace at dusk
A Pratic Connect bioclimatic pergola
Mirrored pergola beside a lake

A bioclimatic pergola whose mirrored glass reflects the gardens, so guests see landscape, not infrastructure.

Engineered, not decorative, ventilation, service access and fire separation designed in from day one.

Sized to the system, a modular aluminium frame extends in width and depth, built around the cabinets.

One project, one team, power system and pergola delivered as a single coordinated installation.
Hidden in plain sight

The pergola that hides a power station at your hotel.

Beautiful at night too, optional LED lighting, automation and drainage concealed in the posts.

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Power that never blinks. Bills that quietly fall. An energy centre hidden in your own grounds.

West Court Retreat

Behind the Greenhouse.

The Energy Centre that runs on stored sun.

Backup, rarely needed

The generator only wakes for a long outage — and burns up to 80% less fuel when it does.

West Court Retreat

Inside the energy centre.

A look inside the container housing the Victron energy centre — the paralleled inverters and BYD battery stack that carry the hotel and spa through peaks and outages alike.

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Two megawatt-hours of BYD storage. One Victron core. Assembled, delivered, and switched on.

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BYD

BYD Battery-Box Premium Partner · Victron Energy systems · Independent Connection Provider

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Book your survey and your first year of service and monitoring is on us.

We walk the estate, inspect the plant room, review the car park and survey the grounds — then model the savings, the resilience case and the pergola concept on your numbers.

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The money page

Most sites never see the market they are buying from.

Flat-rate contracts feel safe, but you pay a premium every hour, all year.

A day on site, in kW

Peak served jointly by grid and battery
6am8am10amNoon2pm5pm7pm10pm
Grid supply Battery, beyond the ceiling Incoming supply limit

More power, starting now

Bigger incoming supplies are our home turf: as an Independent Connection Provider, Always Energy designs and delivers grid upgrades directly — no waiting at the back of someone else's queue.

Even a well-run upgrade takes time to consent and construct, and ambitions rarely wait. The battery closes that gap: discharging alongside the grid at busy times, it lets the site draw more power at peak from day one. Once the new connection is energised, the pair work harder together.

Aerial view of a Home Counties hotel and spa estate
Spotlight — illustrative

West Court Retreat banks £54–63k a year

A coordinated energy centre runs this Home Counties hotel and spa through peaks and outages alike — banking £54–63k a year in savings and grid revenue.

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The car park starts earning its keep

Pumps are out. Plugs are in.

A hotel car park is the perfect charging forecourt: cars sit for hours, drivers pay for convenience, and demand arrives on its own four wheels. What usually stalls the plan is capacity.

The battery solves both halves. It creates the headroom to add more bays, and fills them with energy bought in the cheap half-hours or made on site — sold on at forecourt rates. Every unit sold shortens the payback on the entire system.

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Solar carports over a hotel car park with vehicles charging beneath
BYD

The battery inside every system we build.

BYD Energy Storage cabinet
BYD MC Cube · Industrial Flex

Scalable, one cabinet at a time.

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BYD MC Cube battery storage deployed in a field beside wind turbines and solar
Out in the field

From one cabinet to a field of them.

We can scale from 0.5 megawatt to over 200 megawatt hours.

BYD MC Cube battery storage installed at a grid substation site
Inside the factory

Built on the Blade cell.

Every system we install is built on BYD's Blade cell — lithium iron phosphate chemistry produced on fully automated lines to automotive standards.

It's the same cell that passes the nail-penetration test without fire or thermal runaway — the safety standard we hold from a single node to a utility bank.

BYD MC Cube

The world's first BESS with the Blade Battery.

BYD's own film on the MC Cube — the first energy storage system to integrate the Blade cell, and the platform behind the utility-scale banks we install.

Why we standardise on the Blade cell

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The Blade cell passes the nail-penetration test — the industry's harshest abuse trial — without fire or thermal runaway. It is the reason we are comfortable placing storage inside buildings full of guests, patients and equipment. See the manufacturing and nail-penetration films below.

Engineered not to burn.

See the Blade Battery made

The nail-penetration test, on film

A steel nail driven straight through a live cell — the most rigorous thermal-runaway trial in the industry. Conventional lithium-ion cells reach hundreds of degrees and catch fire; the Blade cell stays cool enough to touch.

Watch it happen — this is why we specify LFP for buildings full of guests.

BYD Battery-Box Premium Partner

A BYD Premium Partner — supplied, installed and commissioned in-house.

Genuine BYD hardware, warranty-backed, integrated with Victron control and monitored for the life of the install.

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Victron Energy

Energy. Anytime. Anywhere.

Designed in the Netherlands. Trusted worldwide.

In the early 70s, our founder, Reinout Vader, took apart a dodgy, borrowed inverter and asked himself how he could improve it. His solution started Victron, now one of the world's foremost developers of power products for marine, RV, off-grid, industrial, and speciality vehicle use.

Engineered to outlast extremes, our open, modular systems provide the freedom to customise and control your energy supply without limits or lock-in. That's why millions of users worldwide trust us to keep things running, no matter where they are or what they do.

Victron Energy · Hybrid power · UPS & genset

The hybrid generator revolution.

Victron inverter/chargers, lithium batteries and the VRM monitoring platform turn a generator into a hybrid system — cutting fuel, emissions, noise and service intervals by as much as 80%, while delivering uninterrupted clean power on or off grid.

For smaller sites up to 2 MW, three-phase, Victron is the intelligent core that runs the load and holds the supply the instant the grid drops.

Victron MultiPlus 20kW

The heart of the Always Energy node.

One inverter is one node. Each MultiPlus supplies 240 volts at 100 amps, single phase — the core that runs the load and holds the supply, paralleled up as the site grows.

20 kW
Per node
240 V
Single phase
100 A
Continuous
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Single-phase supply

Three nodes, single phase.

Three MultiPlus nodes wired single phase — 60 kW at 240 volts, 300 amps combined.

Scaled to three-phase

Paralleled to scale.

One MultiPlus per phase, paralleled into a 415 V three-phase node — and stacked in threes as the site grows.

Scaled to three-phase

Paralleled to scale.

One MultiPlus per phase, paralleled into a 415 V three-phase node — and stacked in threes as the site grows.

Four corners, one grid

Micro grid.

Four paralleled clusters fan out to the corners — one containerised microgrid, scaled to 1.2 MW.

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Victron off-grid microgrid — scalable containerised power
60 kW
Combined output
240 V
Single phase
300 A
Combined
60 kW
Combined output
415 V
3-phase
240 V
Per phase
100 A
Across all 3 phases
300 kW
Combined output
415 V
3-phase
240 V
Per phase
500 A
Across all 3 phases
0.3 MW
System output
15 ×
MultiPlus nodes
415 V
3-phase
500 A
Combined current

Micro grid.

Your Victron expert

Tekidan · Certified installer
Daniel Keeton, Tekidan
Daniel Keeton, Tekidan
Daniel Keeton — Founder, Tekidan

One of the world's leading Victron technicians.

Danny engineers every Always Energy system from the ground up — pushing Victron hardware to its limits and building it to outlast the grid.

30 yrs
Electrical experience
350+
Victron installs
1999
On the tools since
Certified installer for
Victron Energy Fronius BYD
On site with Danny

The Largest Off Grid Victron install in the UK.

This timber yard in England has changed from running huge diesel generators all day every day to a huge lithium and Victron Energy system. Using a combination of solar and generator the owner has significantly reduced his costs, and the system has kept up with the large power requirements of the machines as well as the house.

ways Energy node.

West Court Retreat

Finchampstead, Berkshire
Up to
0%
Reduction in electricity bills

Cut your electric bill with arbitrage, peak shaving and battery storage.

Never suffer a power cut again.

West Court Retreat — aerial view of the estate
Grid
Solar
Generator
Victron MultiPlus 48/20k/250 inverter/charger

Traditional generator vs hybrid

Why we run inverter-first
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Systems we've built

Victron + BYD, installed & commissioned
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VRM — remote monitoring

Every node, watched over for life.

Victron's VRM platform lets us monitor state of charge, generator run-time, temperatures and faults across every installation — fine-tuning performance, pre-empting issues and reporting savings, wherever the site is.

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Who we work with

Owners, general managers and estate directors.

The commercial case differs by property. The engineering does not.
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A power partner for architects

Power is now a design decision.

Design energy performance in from day one — solar, storage, heat pumps and EV charging as one system, hidden in a mirrored enclosure.

Mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work

Designed in, not bolted on

One power partner across every stage — so connection, storage and generation travel with the scheme instead of chasing it.

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The team behind the record installs

People & proof
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The previous record, on film

Victron Energy filmed the record install our designer delivered before West Court Retreat surpassed it. Twelve minutes of independent, checkable evidence of the standards your projects will inherit.

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Three ways to start

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How we value your work

The design integration fee

Integrating an energy centre into a scheme is real work — coordination, planning consents, client counsel. Our partner programme recognises it with a design integration fee: declared to your client, documented in a simple agreement, with a published schedule by project type. Ask for the one-page summary.

Bring us a live scheme — free power feasibility, in writing, within days.

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Grid connections & upgrades

The grid is the long pole. We shorten it.

New connections, capacity upgrades and substations delivered by a NERS-accredited Independent Connection Provider — we self-connect, so your programme stops waiting in the DNO queue.

Capacity is the new planning constraint

Why schemes stall
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Two routes to the same connection

DNO direct vs ICP

Most of a connection is contestable — meaning you do not have to have the network operator do it. That single fact is where the time and the money are.

 
DNO direct
With us as your ICP
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Full scope, one contract
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Why go through an ICP at all

NERS accredited

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Sometimes the cheapest upgrade is not an upgrade

The other option

Not every capacity problem needs a bigger connection. Where the load is peaky — charging, kitchens, chillers, machinery starting — a battery sitting behind the existing supply can carry the peak and leave the connection alone.

We appraise both routes side by side and tell you which is cheaper over twenty years, not just this year. That is the whole reason a connections business and an energy business sit under one roof.

See how the storage works→
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On site

Our own teams, our own kit
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Delivered with UK Power Connections

Ryan Brady leads every connection.

Owner & Lead Engineer · NERS-accredited ICP

Ryan has spent over a decade delivering connection works across the UK — from phased residential energisation to major industrial upgrades — with more than five hundred connections behind him. On an Always Energy project he is not a subcontractor you never meet; he is the engineer who designs the connection and stands on site while it is made.

“Simplify the connection process through direct accountability and technical excellence.”

Send us the site and the load — you will have a connection appraisal in writing within days.

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EV charging infrastructure

Chargers & the power behind them→
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EV charging infrastructure

Chargers are the easy part.

The job is the power behind them — capacity, connection, ducting, civils and reinstatement. We deliver all of it under one contract, as a NERS-accredited ICP.

Every charger question is a capacity question

Start at the substation
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Three ways to power a car park

Priced before you commit

Most installers sell you the one they are set up to deliver. We price all three against your actual load profile and show you the twenty-year number.

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Who we build for

Single bays to full rollouts

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On site

Recent installs
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Tell us how many bays and how fast. We will tell you what the power really costs.

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Battery storage deployed at scale
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Which system fits you

Three ways to build it.
One of them is yours.

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£200 stores it. £500 decides what happens when the grid fails.

So we buy capacity by the cabinet, and control by the node.

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We publish the system. We bracket the connection. In writing, within days.

Country estate from the air

Tell us your spend and your peak.
We'll tell you which one you are.

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"A coordinated energy centre now runs a Home Counties hotel and spa through peaks and outages alike — banking £54–63k a year in savings and grid revenue."
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