Alectrona
BESS brandSolaX builds a commercial storage range that runs from three-phase hybrid inverters and Triple Power batteries up to the Trene air-cooled C&I cabinet, so the same maker covers a small-to-mid site and a larger industrial load.
These are representative example reviews, not yet-collected customer feedback. They are written to illustrate the kind of feedback Alectrona aims to earn and are shown as design placeholders while we gather and verify reviews from our first commercial clients. Alectrona is the commercial solar trading brand of RVTC LTD.
What set Alectrona apart was the documented design pack. We had quotes from three installers, but only Alectrona handed us a full set of drawings, a single-line diagram and a design referencing BS 7671 and the G99 connection process. The whole thing read like an engineering submission rather than a sales brochure. Our M&E consultant reviewed it and signed it off without a single query. That gave the board the confidence to release the capital.
Other firms priced our roof off a satellite image and a desktop guess. Alectrona flew an in-house drone survey, fully insured and flown by a qualified commercial drone pilot, and built a 3D model of the actual roof. It picked up plant, vents and a parapet line that a flat aerial photo had completely missed, which changed the panel layout. I would rather find that out at design stage than on the day the scaffold goes up. The accuracy of that survey is the reason I trusted everything that followed.
As a finance director I was wary of being oversold a system bigger than we could use. Alectrona modelled the array against our actual half-hourly consumption data rather than an annual total, so it is sized to what we genuinely draw on site during the day. They were honest that exporting surplus is worth far less than self-consumption, and built the design around that. The capital case stacked up because the engineering was honest, not because the numbers were inflated.
We were undecided between buying outright, leasing and a PPA. Alectrona laid out all three side by side with the pros and cons of each against our balance sheet, instead of pushing the one that pays them best. They were clear about where a PPA makes sense and where capex wins, and pointed us at our own accountant for the tax treatment. The survey and design took a little longer than I expected, but the thoroughness was worth the wait. Genuinely consultative.
The install crew were tidy and well run, and worked to a clear CDM 2015 plan with a proper site induction and RAMS. What impressed me most was the handover. We received a full commissioning pack with the IEC 62446-1 test results, certification, O&M documentation and an as-built record for our maintenance team. As the people who have to live with this asset for the next twenty years, having that paperwork in order matters enormously. Nothing was left loose.
I expected the usual hard sell and got the opposite. After surveying our site Alectrona told us one roof section was not worth covering because of shading, and that a smaller, well-sited array was the better investment than filling every square metre. There was no commission-driven upselling and no pressure. For a six-figure capital project, that straight talk is exactly what you want from the people advising you. We will be using them again on our second site.
SolaX Power is an established manufacturer of grid-tied inverters and energy storage, with a product line that stretches from packaged residential kit up to commercial and industrial systems. For a finance or facilities director, the relevant point is that its commercial range has real breadth: a three-phase hybrid inverter and a stack of high-voltage batteries for a small-to-mid site, and an all-in-one air-cooled cabinet for a larger one.
This page sets out where SolaX genuinely fits and how we specify it, honestly. Alectrona is brand-agnostic. SolaX is one of the makers we can supply through UK distribution, and whether it goes on your site is a question we answer from your half-hourly data, not from a default.
Engineer-led, assured to the non-MCS standard (CDM 2015).
SolaX covers the commercial band with three building blocks, and which one fits depends on the size and shape of your load.
The hybrid-inverter-and-Triple-Power architecture suits a small-to-mid commercial site: a three-phase load where a hybrid inverter and a high-voltage battery stack do the job, paralleled up as the demand grows. It is a tidy way to put solar and storage in together on one platform.
The Trene cabinet steps up to larger commercial and industrial sites. As an air-cooled, AC-coupled all-in-one, it earns its place where you want a packaged block that ties into an existing or separately sized array, and where the integrated enclosure simplifies the install. Which of the two fits your building is decided by the load and the objective, not by the badge. We size storage against your half-hourly consumption in a PV*SOL model first, then choose the product that matches that profile.
SolaX is a capable, fast-growing manufacturer with a value-strong commercial range and a named product warranty on each system. That is a fair description and we will not dress it up beyond it. It is not, on this page, presented as a utility-grade bankable tier in the way a long-listed major or an established listed maker would be, because that is a different and stronger claim that has to be earned per product.
What that means in practice is simple. Where SolaX is the right fit for your project, we confirm the exact product, the current warranty term and the bankability that the deal actually needs before contract, in writing, rather than assuming it from the brand. If your financing or your risk appetite calls for a more established or lender-familiar name, we will say so and put one forward instead.
The brand is chosen after the survey, not before it. Our in-house insured drone survey establishes the roof and the constraints, and PV*SOL half-hourly modelling shows how the system would behave against your real consumption across the year. Stored solar offsets expensive import, where export is paid far less, so the model is built around lifting the share of your own generation you use rather than selling it back. The SolaX product is then sized and specified from that picture.
At cabinet scale the safety question is thermal: an LFP block of 215 kWh has to manage heat, contain a fault and signal it. The Trene cabinet uses lithium iron phosphate cells, which is the chemistry the wider industry favours behind the meter for its higher thermal-runaway onset temperature and slower failure progression than nickel-based cells. We cover that chemistry trade-off in plain terms on our LFP versus NMC page. On top of the cells, the integrated battery management and the cabinet's own cooling and ventilation are designed to keep cells inside their working window and to isolate a module that drifts out of it.
We name the standards we design and verify against. Stationary battery systems sit under IEC 62619 for cell and battery safety and IEC 62933-5-2 for the safety of the wider energy-storage system, while installation and fire strategy follow BS EN wiring practice and the principles in NFPA 855, the standard for the installation of stationary energy storage. Siting, separation distances and the fire risk assessment are agreed with your insurer and, where the building requires it, the fire authority. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) sets the duties that frame the work, and the whole job runs under CDM 2015. We set out the cabinet-scale fire and siting picture in full on our battery fire safety page, and we confirm the specific certification a given Trene or Triple Power product carries against the live datasheet before contract rather than asserting it from the brand.
The primary job we model a SolaX system around is self-consumption: storing your own solar so it offsets expensive import rather than being exported for far less. That is where the certain value sits, and it is where our peak-shaving modelling starts. Whether a SolaX system can also stack a revenue layer on top depends on the architecture and on the market, and both deserve an honest answer.
On architecture, the hybrid-plus-Triple-Power platform and the AC-coupled Trene cabinet can both respond to a setpoint, so in principle a behind-the-meter battery can shift load across the day and participate in flexibility. The frameworks that pay for that are run by the National Energy System Operator (NESO) and overseen by Ofgem: the Capacity Market, the Balancing Mechanism, and the ancillary frequency-response services such as Dynamic Containment. We frame those markets by name and mechanism here, and we model the revenue layer for your specific site on our grid services and capacity market pages. Any number that comes out of that work is modelled, not promised: it depends on your tariff, your import and export profile, the market route you can access and how the battery is dispatched, and the basis is disclosed every time. We never attach a bare per-kW-year or per-MWh figure to a brand page.
For a finance director the warranty is a core part of the asset case, because a behind-the-meter battery is sized to cycle hard for years. The Triple Power T58 high-voltage battery that pairs with the X3 hybrids carries a 10-year product warranty rated over 6,000 cycles on the published datasheet, with a throughput and retained-capacity basis that we read from the current document for the exact product specified. The Trene cabinet carries its own warranty terms for the larger C&I block. These are datasheet figures and carry no price, and the way storage is sized to your duty cycle is set out on our battery sizing page.
The point we make plainly is that a warranty is only as good as the conditions inside it. Retained-capacity guarantees are stated against a defined cycle count, depth of discharge and operating-temperature range, and they assume the system is commissioned and maintained correctly. So when SolaX is the right fit, we confirm the current warranty term, the cycle and capacity basis and any conditions for your project in writing before contract, sized from your half-hourly load rather than assumed from the brand. If your financing or your risk appetite calls for a more established or lender-familiar name, we say so and put one forward, because we are an independent installer and not affiliated with SolaX. We commission and verify to IEC 62446-1 and connect under G99, which is what keeps those warranty conditions intact across the asset's life.
A range with real breadth. For a small-to-mid three-phase load, the X3 or X3 Ultra hybrid inverter pairs with Triple Power T58 high-voltage batteries, managed through a BMS parallel box and paralleled up as the site grows. For a larger commercial or industrial load, the Trene air-cooled AC-coupled cabinet is an all-in-one block of 100 kW and 215 kWh. We size the system to your load first, then pick the architecture that fits.
It is SolaX's all-in-one commercial and industrial energy storage cabinet, in the air-cooled format at 100 kW and 215 kWh. The cells, the conversion electronics and the controls are integrated in a single enclosure, and it is AC-coupled, so it connects to the building's AC network independently of the solar inverters. That makes it a clean fit for retrofitting storage and for the larger end of a commercial site.
SolaX is an established manufacturer with a value-strong commercial range and a named product warranty on each system. We frame it on that basis and do not present it as a utility-grade bankable tier, which is a stronger claim that has to be earned per product. Where SolaX fits your project, we confirm the exact product, the current warranty and the bankability the deal needs before contract. If your financing calls for a more established or lender-familiar name, we will put one forward instead.
The hybrid-inverter-and-Triple-Power architecture suits a small-to-mid commercial site and scales by paralleling inverters as the load grows. The Trene cabinet steps up to larger commercial and industrial sites as an integrated air-cooled block. The exact capacity and power for your install come from the current datasheet and the project design, sized from your half-hourly data rather than quoted from a brochure.
No. Alectrona is brand-agnostic. SolaX is one of the makers we can supply, and we specify the battery that fits the project, the scale and your risk appetite, with the current product and warranty confirmed before contract. The choice follows the survey and the PV*SOL model, not a supplier preference.
There is no list price, because a SolaX system is sized to your site rather than sold as a fixed pack. The cost depends on whether the design lands on the X3 hybrid and Triple Power batteries or the Trene cabinet, the energy and power you need, and the electrical works. We model the system against your half-hourly load first, then quote. See our battery storage costs and commercial solar cost pages.
The timeline is led by design and the grid connection, not the kit. After the survey and PV*SOL modelling, the main external dependency is your DNO's G99 connection approval, which sits outside our control and is the usual long pole. The Trene cabinet is a factory-integrated block that commissions quickly once on site, while a hybrid-and-battery build takes longer to assemble. We give a programmed timeline with your project plan.
We model your half-hourly load and your solar against a battery sized from an on-site survey, so the figure you get is yours, not a from-price. Capex first, with the bankable brand that fits the project.