Commercial energy decision pathway Commercial Electrification Planning A decision pathway for building owners, facilities teams and procurement leaders evaluating solar, battery storage, HVAC, heat pumps, process loads and fleet charging. The pathway begins with operating evidence and site constraints—not a generic system package or headline savings claim. Four decisions before selecting commercial equipment Establish the operating baseline. Start with available bills or interval data, tariffs, demand charges, operating hours, current solar and planned loads. This makes the evidence gaps visible before equipment or economics are discussed.Test site and electrical readiness. Review roof, carpark or ground opportunity alongside switchboards, transformers, metering, protection, network constraints, access, approvals and critical-load requirements.Separate the business cases. Assess solar, battery, resilience, heat-pump, HVAC, process and fleet-charging decisions against the same declared assumptions. Do not treat an early screen as a final design, incentive outcome or investment recommendation.Choose the next decision-ready deliverable. Move from an initial scope review to a commercial C.A.B.L.E. assessment, an interval-data BESS screen, a procurement workbook or site-specific engineering—depending on the evidence and decision stage. How to choose the next deliverable Commercial C.A.B.L.E. assessment — Create a commercial readiness report covering demand, assets, battery and resilience objectives, future loads and procurement stage.Commercial BESS business-case tool — Use interval-data or disclosed manual inputs to test demand management, energy shifting, sensitivity and evidence gaps.Commercial solar and BESS RFP checklist — Structure a procurement brief around load data, scope, safety, network, warranty, incentive and delivery responsibilities. These routes are decision support. A planning assessment, calculator or procurement guide is not engineering design, a fixed quote, network approval, incentive entitlement, finance approval, investment recommendation or a guarantee of savings or performance. Commercial electrification FAQs Where should a commercial building start with electrification planning?Start with the operating baseline: available interval data or bills, tariff and demand-charge structure, operating hours, existing assets, planned load growth and the decision stakeholders. This establishes whether the immediate next step is data collection, a pre-feasibility screen, concept design or a procurement brief.Can one assessment confirm solar, battery, HVAC and fleet charging viability?An assessment can structure those workstreams and identify dependencies, but it cannot confirm final viability by itself. Site conditions, electrical design, network requirements, equipment selection, approvals, program rules and commercial terms require project-specific verification.What data improves a commercial solar or battery business case?Twelve months of interval data where available, current tariffs and demand charges, NMIs, electrical single-line drawings, switchboard and transformer details, existing solar data, critical-load requirements, future loads and procurement objectives improve the confidence of an initial screen.Does a commercial BESS screen guarantee savings, incentive value or eligibility?No. A BESS screen is pre-feasibility decision support. Savings, certificate pathways, network conditions, eligibility, finance, performance and project delivery depend on current rules, site evidence, equipment, tariffs and final contractual terms.