POWER QUALITYClean, steady power for critical equipment
Battery, UPS & Solar Integration. Denver & Front Range.
Voltage sags, surges, and split-second outages reset machines, corrupt data, and spoil product. We design battery storage and UPS systems that keep your critical loads running, then integrate them with solar so the same equipment that protects your operation also lowers your energy costs.
Book a Power AssessmentThe problem
Bad power costs more than an outage
Most power problems last less than a second. That is still long enough to stop a production line, reboot a server, or trip a compressor.
Voltage sags
Brief dips when large motors start or the grid is stressed. Drives, controls, and computers can drop out or reset.
Momentary interruptions
Blinks that last a fraction of a second. Lights barely flicker, but sensitive equipment restarts and work in progress is lost.
Surges and transients
Spikes from switching and lightning that stress electronics and shorten the life of expensive equipment.
Harmonics and noise
Distorted waveforms from variable-frequency drives and electronics that cause overheating, nuisance trips, and odd faults.
Extended outages
Storms, wildfire-season shutoffs, and equipment failures that take a building offline for hours.
Peak demand charges
Short bursts of high usage that set your demand charge for the month on many commercial rate plans.
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Three ways to protect your power
Start with your most critical loads and build toward a facility that generates, stores, and conditions its own power.
UPS for critical loads
An uninterruptible power supply that conditions power and takes over instantly so critical equipment never sees a disturbance.
- Instant ride-through for sags and blinks
- Surge and noise conditioning
- Time to switch to backup or shut down safely
Battery Storage + UPS
Add a commercial battery system for hours of backup across more of the building, plus peak shaving on everyday bills.
- Everything in UPS
- Hours of backup, not minutes
- Peak demand reduction
- Scalable as your loads grow
Solar + Storage + UPS
Solar recharges your batteries every day, so your protection system also cuts energy costs and keeps running through long outages.
- Everything in Battery Storage + UPS
- On-site solar to recharge storage
- Lower energy and demand costs
- Longest runtime during extended outages
Protection that pays for itself
Avoid costly downtime
Keep production, refrigeration, records, and point of sale running through the disturbances that used to stop them.
Trim demand charges
On rate plans with demand charges, batteries discharge during your peaks to lower the demand you are billed for.
Store your own solar
Capture midday solar production and use it when rates or demand are highest, or hold it in reserve for outages.
Extend equipment life
Conditioned, steady power reduces stress on motors, drives, and electronics, so they last longer and fail less often.
Who we help
Built for operations that cannot go down
Medical & dental
Imaging, sterilization, and patient records that need clean, uninterrupted power.
Labs & research
Instruments, freezers, and long-running tests that cannot restart mid-cycle.
Manufacturing
CNC machines, PLCs, and drives that fault on sags and lose hours of work.
IT & server rooms
Networks and servers that need ride-through and a clean shutdown path.
Restaurants & cold storage
Walk-ins and freezers where an outage means spoiled inventory.
Breweries & food production
Process controls, pumps, and chillers that need steady power.
Indoor agriculture
Lighting, HVAC, and irrigation controls where downtime puts a crop at risk.
Offices & retail
Phones, point of sale, and security systems that keep the doors open.
How it works
From power problem to protected facility
We size protection to the loads that matter, then show how solar and storage can lower the cost of owning it.
Power assessment
We identify your critical loads, review utility bills and interval data, and document your outage and reset history.
System design
We size the UPS, battery storage, and solar together and model backup runtime alongside energy and demand savings.
Permitting & install
We handle utility interconnection, permitting, and installation with minimal disruption to your operation.
Monitoring & support
We commission the system, set up monitoring, and support it for the long haul.
Replacing a roof on a large Denver building?
Buildings 25,000 square feet and larger must meet Denver's Green Buildings Ordinance when they replace a roof. Rooftop solar is the compliance option that pays you back, and it can recharge the same batteries that protect your power.
- Cool roof plus a compliance option is required
- Solar covers the requirement and lowers energy costs
- We coordinate the solar install with your roofer
Completed commercial projects
Real commercial and municipal systems Discovery has delivered across Colorado.
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Power quality questions, answered
Power quality basics
What is power quality?
Power quality describes how steady and clean the electricity reaching your equipment is. Good power holds voltage within a normal range, keeps a consistent frequency, and has a clean waveform. Common problems include voltage sags and swells, surges and transients, harmonic distortion, flicker, and momentary interruptions that last only a fraction of a second but can still reset sensitive equipment.
What is the difference between a UPS and battery storage?
A UPS (uninterruptible power supply) sits between the grid and your critical equipment and takes over instantly, or continuously conditions power, so loads never see a disturbance. It is usually sized to carry critical loads for minutes. A battery energy storage system is larger, stores hours of energy, can back up bigger portions of a building, and can store solar power and reduce peak demand. Many facilities pair the two: the UPS protects the most sensitive loads and the battery system extends runtime.
Can solar panels alone protect my business from outages?
No. A standard grid-tied solar system shuts off during a grid outage for safety. Paired with battery storage and the right inverter and controls, solar can keep recharging the batteries so critical loads stay powered longer during an extended outage.
Costs and sizing
Can battery storage lower my commercial electric bill?
Often, yes. On commercial rate plans that include demand charges, a battery can discharge during your highest-use periods to lower the peak demand you are billed for. It can also store midday solar production for later use. Savings depend on your rate plan and load profile, so we model them with your actual utility data before you commit.
How do you size a UPS or battery system for my facility?
We start with which loads truly cannot go down, how much power they draw, and how long they need to run. Then we review your utility bills, any interval data, and your history of outages and equipment resets. From there we size the UPS, the battery system, or both, and show how solar can integrate to recharge storage and offset energy costs.
Which businesses benefit most from power quality upgrades?
Any operation where a few seconds of bad power means lost product, lost data, or downtime. That includes medical and dental offices, labs, manufacturers running CNC machines or PLCs, server rooms and IT closets, restaurants and cold storage, breweries and food producers, and indoor agriculture.
Find out what bad power is costing you
Book a power assessment. We review your critical loads and utility data, then design battery, UPS, and solar protection that fits your operation and budget.
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