Irrigate by day. Power the cellar by night.
Solar + storage for farms, estates and wineries — pump when the sun shines, run cold rooms, presses and tasting rooms around the clock, and retire the diesel pump sets that remote agriculture still depends on.
Why Farms Overpay for Power
Agriculture runs on daytime pumping and round-the-clock refrigeration — the grid and diesel bill both punish that pattern:
Pumping exactly when electricity is most expensive. Storage shifts cellar, packing and irrigation-support load into solar hours, so daytime PV is consumed on site instead of sold cheap or wasted.
Cold rooms, irrigation controllers and livestock systems don't wait for the grid. Storage rides through faults and load shedding automatically, with the genset only for extended events.
Remote boreholes and pivots on diesel pay 2–4× pump price once fuel is delivered. A PV + BESS hybrid runs the pump from the sun and stores the surplus — fuel becomes emergency-only.
Harvest season means guests in the tasting room and neighbours at the boundary. Storage operates silently, so overnight power no longer means a rattling genset by the vines.
Feed-in tariffs keep falling and many rural connections limit export. Storage captures midday solar for evening and morning loads, raising self-consumption from ~30% toward 70%+.
New packhouses and cold rooms need more grid capacity that may take years to arrive. Storage adds virtual capacity — expand production before the utility catches up.
Match the Configuration to the Estate
Three catalogue configurations cover most agricultural operations — from a pump station to an integrated wine estate. Custom designs quoted per site.
| Parameter | Farm & Pump Station | Winery & Packing Shed ★ | Estate & Agri-Processing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recommended system | AP-520/522/523 cabinet | AP-1567 container | AP-2089 / AP-H container |
| Rated energy | 520 – 523 kWh | 1,567 kWh | 2,089 – 3,793.92 kWh |
| Integrated PCS | 125 kW | 750 kW (375 + 375) | 1,000 kW |
| STS transfer | — | 1,200 kW · <10 ms | 1,200 / 1,320 kW · <10 ms |
| Typical duty | Borehole / pivot pumps + farmhouse, daily solar cycling | Presses, cold rooms, tasting room, outage ride-through | Packhouse + irrigation fleets, PV self-consumption 3 MWh+/day |
| Enclosure | IP65 cabinet · outdoor pad | IP65 container · 6058×2438×2896 mm | IP65 container · 20GP (AP-H) |
| All configurations | Liquid-cooled LFP · aerosol + water-spray fire protection · AMS cloud control with >150 fault-diagnosis items · –25 ~ +55 °C · AC-coupled to existing PV inverters and gensets | ||
Farm-Tough Hardware, One Control Core
AP-520/522/523 Cabinet
| Rated energy | 520–523 kWh |
| AC power | 125 kW |
| Protection | ≥ IP65 |
| Footprint | 2000×1350 mm pad |
AP-1567 Container
| Rated energy | 1,567 kWh |
| Integrated PCS | 750 kW |
| STS | 1,200 kW · <10 ms |
| Protection | IP65 |
AP-2089 / AP-H Container
| Rated energy | 2,089 / 3,793.92 kWh |
| Integrated PCS | 1,000 kW |
| Form factor | 20 ft / 20GP ISO |
| Cycle life | ≥ 8,000 @ 25 °C |
Storage Working on Farms and Estates
250 kW / 522 kWh, PV-coupled
1 MW / 1.29 MWh PV-ESS-DG microgrid
500 kW / 430 kWh, wet environment
Reference-site patterns show PV self-consumption rising from ~30% to 70%+ with storage, diesel pump runtime falling 60–80%, and agricultural storage investments typically recovering inside 4–7 years on energy savings alone — shorter where outage losses and diesel logistics are priced in. These are industry-wide patterns, not ALEO POWER guarantees — every quotation includes a sized ROI worksheet built from your pump and refrigeration loads, fuel invoices and solar resource.
Farm & Winery Energy Questions
Can the system run our borehole and irrigation pumps directly?
How long can the cold room run through an outage?
We already have rooftop / shed solar — does it have to be replaced?
Dust, heat, sprays — will it survive farm conditions?
What does a wine estate typically save?
Send us your pump and refrigeration loads. We'll size the system.
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