Electrical contractors
Established electrical contractors carry out the site electrical works, installation and terminations.
ASKA models, delivers and operates battery storage for commercial and industrial sites in New Zealand.
Why ASKA exists
Commercial and industrial sites in New Zealand are paying more for network capacity and waiting longer for new connections, while the load they need to add keeps growing.
Battery storage answers much of that, but it is usually sold as hardware: sized without the site's own data and left on its default settings once installed.
ASKA was set up to do the whole job in one company. It models the site first, designs and delivers the system, and runs it with its own software, reporting each month against the original business case.
What ASKA does
Consulting and engineering
Feasibility, business cases, network support and solution engineering, modelled on the site's own data and actual network charges.
GridStore
Battery systems built to ASKA's specification, installed through ASKA's electrical partners and commissioned to AS/NZS 5139 and 4777.2.
Tungsten
Dispatch against prices, network windows and flexibility commitments, with monitoring, maintenance and a monthly report against the business case.
Delivery partners
ASKA runs each project and is responsible for the result. The work on site is carried out with specialist partners, engaged for what each project needs.
Service providers
Nationwide service providers for maintenance and fault response across New Zealand.
Chartered engineers
Chartered electrical engineers review designs and support commissioning.
Controls specialists
Controls and SCADA specialists for site integration, protection interfaces and communications.
Metering and data
Metering and logging providers for site data before and after installation.
Battery manufacturers
Specialist manufacturers build GridStore cabinets to ASKA's specification.
Leadership
ASKA is led by Darrell Taylor, who has well over twenty years of experience in the New Zealand electricity sector across electricity retail, network companies, electrical contracting and software.
He has worked with batteries from early critical power supply systems through to some of New Zealand's first grid scale battery storage projects.
ASKA takes its name from the Norse word for ash, and the renewal that follows it. New Zealand's energy sector needs that renewal and new thinking, and ASKA was set up to bring that thinking and experience to commercial and industrial customers.
How ASKA works
Every option reported
Options that do not need a battery are reported alongside those that do.
Data stays in the region
All site data, and access to it, is managed by ASKA and held on servers in the Australasian region.
Supply interest disclosed
Where ASKA could also supply the system, that is stated at the start.
Programmes and registration
ASKA Limited is an intermediary in EECA's Efficient Demand Flexibility programme and a registered participant with the Electricity Authority.
Talk to us about whether your site or project could take part.