Battery Storage & Solar Battery Systems
A battery lets you keep the power you have already paid for — daytime solar used in the evening, or cheap overnight electricity used through the day. We survey, size, install, test and look after battery systems for homes and businesses across York and North Yorkshire.
Sized around your usage, not a sales package
Batteries only pay their way when they are matched to a real load pattern and a real tariff. We look at your bills, your meter and your electrics first, then tell you what size makes sense — including when the honest answer is a smaller one.
Usage survey & battery sizing
We read your consumption, your tariff and your existing solar generation, then size the battery around evening usage and overnight rates rather than fitting the biggest unit on the shelf.
Home battery installation
Wall-mounted or floor-standing batteries in the garage, utility room, loft or plant space, with correct ventilation, fire separation, mounting and cable routes.
Retrofit to existing solar
Already have panels with no storage? We add AC-coupled batteries to almost any existing array without ripping out the inverter you already paid for.
Hybrid inverter systems
For new solar or an ageing inverter, a hybrid inverter handles panels and battery together — fewer boxes on the wall, better control and one system to monitor.
Off-peak & smart tariff charging
Charging schedules set up against cheap-rate windows so the battery fills overnight and carries the house through the expensive part of the day.
Backup & essential circuits
Where you want resilience as well as savings, we can wire selected circuits — freezer, boiler, lighting, broadband, alarm — to stay live through a power cut.
Monitoring, apps & alerting
Charge level, solar generation, import, export and household usage on your phone, with alerts set so a fault is spotted before it shows up as a bill.
Commercial & three-phase storage
Larger cabinets for workshops, offices and units, three-phase designs, peak-shaving to trim demand charges, and installs staged around your working hours.
Testing, certification & notification
Full electrical testing, Electrical Installation Certificate, Building Control notification and distribution network operator notification where required — paperwork kept on file for you.
Expansions & upgrades
Extra modules added to a system that has outgrown itself, older batteries replaced, and controls brought up to date so a five-year-old install works with today's tariffs.
Faults, servicing & repairs
Batteries that stopped charging, inverters showing errors, systems that quietly dropped offline months ago — we diagnose and fix, including installs we did not fit.
Handover & aftercare
A walkthrough of the app and the isolators, written settings, and a number that reaches the same Clifton Moor team when something needs attention.
Homes & landlords
For households across York and the surrounding area, storage is what turns a solar system from a daytime saving into an all-day one — or makes a cheap overnight tariff work without solar at all.
- Battery sized around evening and overnight usage
- Retrofit to an existing solar array, no new panels needed
- Overnight cheap-rate charging on smart tariffs
- Optional backup circuits for power cuts
- Works alongside an EV charger so the car and house share sensibly
- App setup, walkthrough and written settings at handover
- Consumer unit upgrades where the existing board needs it
Commercial & industrial
For businesses, storage smooths the peaks: it shaves demand charges, keeps critical kit alive through a dip, and stores solar the site cannot use during quiet hours.
- Three-phase and multi-cabinet designs
- Peak shaving to reduce demand charges
- Storage for solar generated outside operating hours
- Backup supply for tills, servers, refrigeration or security
- Installation staged around trading and production hours
- Monitoring across multiple sites in one view
- Planned maintenance rolled into an existing facilities contract
Six steps, start to finish
Tell us what you want it to do
Savings, backup, storing solar, or all three. A call or a WhatsApp photo of your consumer unit and meter is enough to start.
Survey & honest advice
We check your supply, board, existing solar and space, and go through your usage. If a battery will not pay for itself, we will say so.
Design, quote & dates
A written quote with the battery size, where it goes, what it will do and what it costs — no pressure and no moving-target pricing.
Installation
Mounting, cabling, isolators, protection and any board work, done tidily with the house or premises kept usable.
Test, certify & notify
Full testing, certification, and network operator and Building Control notification where the installation requires it.
Handover, monitoring & aftercare
Charging schedules set, app on your phone, settings written down, and ongoing support from the same local team.
What every battery installation includes
If a battery will not pay for itself, we will say so
Low evening usage, a tariff with no cheap window, a small array or a supply that cannot take the extra load — these are all real answers, and you will hear them at survey stage rather than after a deposit. Where storage is not the right move we will point you at what is, whether that is solar, an EV charger, better controls or the electrical upgrades we already carry out for facilities contracts.
Battery storage sits inside our facilities work, not beside it
NICEIC Approved electrical work, Gas Safe heating, appliance repairs, planned maintenance, safety certificates and reactive call-outs all come from the same Clifton Moor team. If a battery goes on your wall, the inverter, the consumer board, the annual inspection and the fault at two in the morning are all covered by people who already know the building.
Thinking about storage?
Tell us your postcode, your tariff and what you want the battery to do, and we will arrange a visit across York and North Yorkshire. Quote and advice first, decision later.