Pfister - Commercial Battery Storage System
Turn your facility into an intelligent, self-reliant energy hub. Whether paired with solar or installed on its own, a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) helps commercial and industrial facilities manage rising energy costs, maintain operations during outages, and stabilize performance in an increasingly volatile energy market.
A BESS captures electricity from the grid or on-site generation and stores it for use when it delivers the most value — reducing costs, improving reliability, and creating additional revenue streams.
Modern BESS units are managed by intelligent control software (or an energy specialist) that determines when to charge, discharge, or store power.
BESS helps your facility:
- Manage rising energy costs
- Reduce demand charges by shaving short usage spikes.
- Lower time-of-use costs by shifting energy consumption.
- Provide backup power during grid outages.
- Generate new revenue through demand response and PJM market programs.
- Improve power quality to protect sensitive equipment.
- Support EV charging or expansion without costly service upgrades or extended interconnection wait times.
The U.S. grid is under unprecedented strain. Explosive growth in AI, data centers, electrification, and manufacturing reshoring has driven electricity demand to record levels after decades of stagnation.
As a result, energy costs are climbing sharply. Utilities are struggling to keep up — causing higher rates, long interconnection delays, and rising outage risks. Capacity prices in the Mid-Atlantic have increased more than tenfold since 2023, driving double-digit rate hikes across New Jersey and neighboring states.
Battery storage helps businesses stabilize costs, optimize when and how they use power, and maintain operations when the grid can’t. With state incentives already active—or launching soon—in New Jersey, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, Vermont, and Hawaii, the value case for commercial battery storage has never been stronger.
Battery storage is integral to a microgrid — a self-sustaining system that can operate independently from the utility grid.
When paired with solar and backup generators, a microgrid helps your facility maintain uptime during outages while optimizing energy use for maximum efficiency and resilience.
In short, solar generates, BESS stores, and the microgrid ties it all together. Learn more about Microgrids..
A Battery Energy Storage System creates multiple layers of financial and operational value.
Each system typically captures several “stacked value streams” that together make BESS one of the smartest long-term infrastructure investments available today.
How Batteries Create ValueThe energy savings and revenue below are based on November 2025 electric rates for a facility on PSEG’s Large Power & Lighting Secondary rate with approximately 1 MW of daily demand.