Book a 30-minute scoping call - no commitment, no cost. (pitch deck v9 slide 18 framing)
Range - what we supply
Two ends of a single discipline.
C&I - single-site, 50 kW to 500 kW
For commercial and industrial sites, real-estate operators and public buildings. Outdoor or indoor system options. PV integration where the site already has solar. On-site commissioning. Typical ticket size: CHF 27K to CHF 450K, scoped per project. (fact-base §2.3, §4.3)
Utility-scale - 1 MW to 10+ MW
Containerised or skid-mounted. Grid-forming or grid-following. Ancillary-services support. Delivered with an EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) partner on the largest tickets - GridSphere does the engineering and supply, the EPC does the install. Tickets up to several million CHF per project. (fact-base §2.3)
Native platform integration on day one
A BESS supplied by GridSphere arrives ready for the GridSphere Platform. No retrofit later. Three things land at commissioning. (fact-base §2.3)
- EMS (energy management system) compatibility pre-wired.
- Telemetry hooks installed on first power-up.
- Reporting standard inherited from the SIMULA business case.
When the asset later joins ec-storage, the trader hand-shake is already there. The closed CAPEX → OPEX (capital expenditure to operational expenditure) loop is the spine of how we work: a supply customer becomes a platform user without re-installation. (positioning brief §3.3; fact-base §2.3)
OEM-independent, cell technology named
GridSphere does not represent a battery manufacturer. System integrators are sourced from a multiple-source qualified panel - the choice is the buyer's project, not a captive line-up. (positioning brief §6 point 3; fact-base §2.3)
Cell technology: CATL, ENVISION. (Luca decision 2026-04-28)
The split is deliberate. Cell technology is named because it grounds the technical credibility of what is actually inside the box. System integrators stay as a category claim because the right integrator on a 200 kW C&I site is not the right one on a 5 MW utility-scale containerised job, and locking in one brand at the corporate level would be the wrong incentive at the project level.
Engineered, not catalogued
There is no off-the-shelf signup for a BESS supply. Every system is sized on SIMULA, scoped against the offtake contract or the load profile, and delivered with a per-site engineering pack. (fact-base §2.3, §2.1)
A scoping call is the right next step - not a quote form.
Run your site through SIMULA - if you would rather see a sized system before booking the call.
How a supply project runs
Three phases.
Phase 1 - Scoping and SIMULA sizing (1–3 weeks). Load profile, site assessment, first-pass sizing, financial assessment.
Phase 2 - OEM selection, engineering pack, contracts (4–8 weeks for C&I; longer for utility-scale). [Phase 2 utility-scale timeline range - confirm with Luca]
Phase 3 - Delivery, commissioning, platform integration (project-dependent). EMS hand-shake, telemetry verification, reporting baseline against the SIMULA business case. The asset is on the platform from day one of operation.
BESS-as-a-Service - three parties, one asset
When the host doesn't want to put capital in but the asset still belongs on their site, BESS-as-a-Service (BaaS) is how it gets built. Three parties, one tri-party structure. (fact-base §3.5; platform-terms.md)
- The host - typically a C&I energy buyer with a site suitable for BESS.
- The financier - typically a DSO (distribution system operator) that funds the BESS CAPEX and books the asset.
- GridSphere - originator, supplier and operator on the platform.
A precedent for this structure is live today - a tri-party BESS-as-a-Service structure between an industrial host, a DSO financier and GridSphere. (anonymised per client-references-policy.md; fact-base §3.5)
How the tri-party BESS-as-a-Service model works
What we have done
Two anonymised case lines from the active engagement set. (fact-base §3; client-references-policy.md anonymised defaults)
A multi-site real-estate rollout, low-hundreds-of-kW per building, on a standardised model that scales across the portfolio.
A tri-party BESS-as-a-Service structure between an industrial host, a DSO financier and GridSphere - the "Business as Usual" archetype at scale.
What an asset earns later
A BESS supplied by GridSphere arrives ready to monetise FTM later - and that is the difference between roughly CHF 80 and CHF 120 per kW per year of unit revenue, modelled per site on SIMULA. (pitch deck v9 slide 3; company presentation slide 4)
See ec-storage - the marketplace
Founder-led
GridSphere is led by Luca Roccia: ex-NHOA Americas (VP), ex-Engie EPS (MD Industrial Solutions), ex-GE, ex-Eaton, ex-Tecnimont. M&A-led utility-scale storage in the US; IPMA D certified. (fact-base §6.3)
Start with a 30-minute call
Book a 30-minute scoping call - no commitment, no cost.
Run your site through SIMULA - if you would rather see a sized system first.