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A volunteer-run village shop in the Vale of Clwyd, plagued by power cuts and squeezed by energy prices. Phase one of its Sigenergy system is in - and the village noticed the difference almost immediately.
Llandyrnog Community Shop is exactly what it sounds like: the heart of a Denbighshire village. It is where people pick up essentials, collect the paper and catch up on the doorstep. It is also a building with fridges, freezers, tills and lighting that all have to keep running on tight community margins.
Two things were working against it. Energy prices, which hit refrigeration-heavy buildings harder than most, and the power cuts that have plagued the village. Every outage risked stock in the freezers and closed the shop until the grid came back. The committee wanted both problems dealt with properly.
Phase one went in over a few days in February 2026, planned around opening hours so the shop kept trading throughout. The battery stack sits neatly against the back of the building, out of the way of deliveries and customers.
“Fantastic job done by Lee and the team. Everything went like clockwork and the system was up and running in no time. Yes, it’s a big battery - 54kWh - but along with lowering costs it means the plagued power cuts in the village are no longer an issue.”
Emyr Morris, via the HSB Facebook pageThe sums matter, and the shop now generates and stores a large share of what it uses. But the bigger win for a rural business is resilience. With 54kWh of storage on site, an outage that used to stop trading now passes almost unnoticed - the fridges stay cold, the tills stay on, and the shop stays open.
That is what a properly sized battery does: it turns solar from a money-saver into an insurance policy the whole village benefits from. Phase two will build on the same foundations.
If your building is rural, refrigeration-heavy or simply cannot afford downtime, this project is worth paying attention to. Solar cuts the bills; storage is what keeps you running when the grid lets you down. Parts of North Wales know that problem all too well.
Stock in fridges and freezers is money. A battery sized to your building keeps it safe through outages and cuts your daytime running costs at the same time.
Milking, refrigeration and pumps do not wait for the grid to come back. Stored solar power keeps critical loads running and shaves the bills all year round.
If power cuts are a fact of life where you live, battery back-up means the lights, heating controls and broadband stay on while the street goes dark.
We will always give you honest, ranged numbers based on your actual usage - not brochure figures. If the payback does not stack up for your building, we will tell you that too.
We visit, look at your roof, your usage and your meter, and listen to what you actually want to achieve.
A clear, itemised quote with honest payback estimates. No pressure, no follow-up calls every other day.
Our own team fits the system, planned around your opening hours - as we did for this shop.
We commission everything, show you the app and the numbers, and stay on the end of the phone afterwards.
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