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Use case

Energy arbitrage

A cold store never sleeps — its compressors run straight through the afternoon peak, buying power at the most expensive rate of the day. A battery lets it buy that energy the night before instead.

Cold storageFood & beverage24/7 operations
The situation

Representative site · Frozen distribution centre

Picture a frozen-food distribution centre that runs around the clock. Its refrigeration compressors draw a large, steady load — and a big slice of that consumption falls inside TNB’s 14:00–22:00 peak window, where each kilowatt-hour costs the most. The energy is unavoidable; the timing of when it’s bought is not.

What it costs today

Paying the peak rate for energy you could buy off-peak

Under Time-of-Use, energy in the peak window costs RM 0.3132/kWh against RM 0.2723 off-peak. Every kilowatt-hour the site pulls from the grid between 14:00 and 22:00 carries that premium — day after day, all year.

RM 0.3132 / kWh

TNB ToU peak energy rate vs RM 0.2723 off-peak — a RM 0.0409 premium on every peak kWh.

How UniBess solves it

The same battery and EMS that defend the demand peak also shift energy in time — buy it cheap, use it dear.

1

Charge off-peak

Overnight, at the low off-peak rate, the battery fills up — alongside any surplus midday solar.

2

Discharge through the peak

From 14:00 to 22:00 the compressors run partly off the battery, so fewer kWh are bought at the peak rate.

3

Bank the spread

Every shifted kWh earns the peak-to-off-peak gap, net of round-trip losses — stacked on top of demand savings.

The outcome

A bonus layer, earned every day

The compressors don’t change their schedule — the battery just changes when the energy was bought. The spread is small per kWh, but it adds up quietly across thousands of kilowatt-hours a month.

Without a battery
  • ~800 kWh/day bought in the peak window
  • At RM 0.3132 / kWh
  • No timing flexibility
With UniBess
  • Same 800 kWh charged off-peak
  • Discharged through the peak
  • Spread captured, ~90% round-trip
≈ RM 880 saved / month ≈ RM 10,000 a year — modest alone, but free to run on hardware already paying for itself through peak shaving. Representative, based on the TNB RP4 tariff.

Is this your site?

Arbitrage rewards sites that use real energy during the peak window and have battery headroom to spare. You’ll likely benefit if:

  • You run into or through the 14:00–22:00 peak window.
  • A meaningful share of your energy is consumed at the peak rate.
  • You have rooftop solar that overproduces at midday.
  • Your battery has capacity beyond pure peak-shaving duty.

Where we're honest

Arbitrage is the topping, not the cake. We never size a battery for arbitrage alone in Malaysia — the price gap is too narrow. It earns its keep only as a bonus layer on a system already paying for itself through demand reduction.