Solar sized to your load, not your roof

A well-designed commercial solar system typically offsets 30 to 60 per cent of site consumption. The ceiling is structural: solar generates in daylight while most commercial load peaks in the late afternoon. Adding storage, demand response and intelligent control is what moves a site past that ceiling.

No. It should be sized to the load profile, meaning the shape of consumption across the day, and to how much surplus the site can self-consume or store. Sizing to annual consumption produces export the site is paid very little for.

A grid-tied system reduces purchased electricity while staying connected to the network. A hybrid system adds battery storage, so generation can be shifted into peak windows and used for demand management and resilience. An off-grid system operates independently of the network, for remote or constrained sites where supply is limited or unavailable.

Real-time visibility across generation, usage and system performance. Monitoring is what makes continuous optimisation possible. Without measurement there is nothing for the control layer to act on and no way to verify the system is performing to its design.

Yes, as the generation layer of an integrated system. As a standalone product its returns are capped by collapsed feed-in tariffs and by demand charges it cannot touch. As part of a controlled ecosystem it is the cheapest energy on the site.

A commercial installation starts with the electrical infrastructure rather than the roof: switchboard capacity, protection settings and network position determine what the site can carry and what approvals it needs. Then the array is sized against twelve months of interval data, engineered, approved with the network, installed and commissioned. Vitalic does the design, the installation and the ongoing operation, so accountability for how the system performs does not change hands at commissioning.

Solar systems up to 1 MW installed from 1 October 2026 create small-scale technology certificates (STCs), whose value is usually taken as a discount off the installed price rather than a payment received later. Systems above 1 MW create large-scale generation certificates (LGCs) as they generate. Eligibility and the deeming arrangements change over time, so the current position should be confirmed as part of the assessment rather than assumed from a previous project. How mid-scale solar STCs work.

Industrial sites usually differ in three ways: a much flatter load profile that runs through the night, roof structures and areas that change what can be mounted and where, and a network connection large enough that export limits and protection studies become the governing constraint. The panels are rarely the difference. The engineering around the connection and the structure is.