Ontario
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- 300 kW / 1,000 kWh
- Estimated annual savings
- $43,382
- Simple payback
- 9.6 yr
- BESS Opportunity Score
- 69 / 100
Battery storage for cold storage
Refrigeration compressors create sharp, repeatable demand peaks with significant thermal inertia. Cold-storage sites regularly show the strongest BESS payback in Canada.
Canadian BESS Snapshot
- Application
- Cold storage
- Typical peak reduction
- 35% of monthly peak demand
- Typical duration
- 3 hours
- System scale
- LFP containerized, scaled to your site
- Primary load drivers
- Compressor start peaks, High load factor, Product-loss resilience, Refrigeration cycling flexibility
- Currency
- CAD
Load drivers
- Compressor start peaks
- High load factor
- Product-loss resilience
- Refrigeration cycling flexibility
Provincial examples (900 kW peak)
Alberta
View province- Recommended system
- 300 kW / 1,000 kWh
- Estimated annual savings
- $51,417
- Simple payback
- 8.0 yr
- BESS Opportunity Score
- 75 / 100
Quebec
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- 300 kW / 1,000 kWh
- Estimated annual savings
- $55,359
- Simple payback
- 7.4 yr
- BESS Opportunity Score
- 79 / 100
Illustrative — site-specific analysis required.