Yes — the Rhino IntelliFlex HV battery is designed to support multi-building and campus-style deployments. Its modular racks, centralised BMS and communications architecture enable energy to be aggregated, managed and dispatched across multiple buildings or zones for consistent, reliable power delivery.
Campus & Multi-Building Architectures
Deployments can be organised as a centralised energy hub serving multiple buildings (single-point installation) or as distributed racks installed near individual buildings and networked together. Both approaches allow central energy management, coordinated dispatch and unified monitoring for campus-wide optimisation.
How Multi-Site Management Works
- Centralised BMS & EMS: The Rhino BMS communicates SOC, fault states and telemetry to a central Energy Management System (EMS) that issues dispatch instructions to each rack or site.
- Coordinated dispatch: The EMS schedules charge/discharge for peak shaving, load-shifting, or backup across sites to maximise savings and resilience.
- Island & grid interactions: Sites can island independently if required or be centrally synchronised with the grid and generators for controlled blackstart and recovery.
Practical Requirements & Considerations
- Network & communications: Reliable CAN/RS485/IP links between racks and the central EMS are required for coordinated operation and monitoring.
- Electrical infrastructure: Adequate switchgear, cabling, metering and protective relays must be designed for aggregated capacity and fault segregation.
- Site topology: Decide between centralised vs distributed racks based on transport, footprint, cooling and redundancy needs.
- Regulatory & metering: Multi-building export, billing and connection rules may vary — confirm local distributor/municipality requirements for SSEG, metering and export management.
Benefits of Campus Deployments
- Optimised utilisation: Share energy resources across buildings to increase utilisation rates and improve ROI.
- Improved resilience: Localised islanding and central coordination reduce outage impact across the campus.
- Flexible growth: Add racks at individual buildings or at the central hub as demand increases without major redesign.
- Simplified operations: Central monitoring and reporting streamline maintenance, warranty management and energy accounting.
Getting Started
To deploy across multiple buildings, collect 12 months of site bills, map critical loads per building, decide preferred topology (centralised vs distributed) and schedule an LBSA site survey. LBSA can provide EMS integration guidance, recommended communications architectures, and staged rollout plans to match budgets and operational needs.