The battery is still the battery.
The interconnection and the AHJ are what stall the project.
The BESS project that sat for two months waiting on the utility interconnection study while your crew billed nothing. The fire marshal who wanted NFPA 855 clearances and a UL 9540A test report your binder couldn't produce on demand. Forge is built to be the chest a working storage integrator would assemble for himself — and energy storage is a trade Forge is moving into, not one it ships today. Charter members shape the drawer before it ships.
The drawers that matter most
when the truck door opens.
Built to carry BESS assemblies — battery racks, PCS/inverters, thermal management, fire suppression, switchgear, BOS — sized to the system you actually install. In development; Charter members define which assemblies ship first.
Designed to assemble the AHJ package the way storage demands it — single-line, NFPA 855 clearance layout, UL 9540 / 9540A documentation, NEC calcs, structural letters — as version-controlled documents the fire marshal can verify. Built to, not yet shipped.
Intended to model the storage economics honestly — ITC (including standalone-storage ITC), MACRS depreciation, state SGIP-style rebates, and demand-charge / arbitrage value. The drawer is being designed with Charter operators, not retrofitted from a solar model.
Built to flex when the interconnection study slips — reshuffle the crew before the idle weeks land on your P&L, and respect the certifications a high-voltage storage commissioning actually requires. Charter members set the rules.
Hyperion isn't built for energy storage yet — but it's designed to be. The same iPad LiDAR instrument that as-builds a roof or a mechanical room is built to capture the equipment yard or electrical room a BESS lands in: clearance volumes for NFPA 855 separation, equipment footprints, conduit routes, and ground-truth dimensions the AHJ argues over. Ground-truth from an in-field scan over an aerial guess. The drawer is in development; Charter members get it first.
The first energy storage · bess Charter member
writes their own page here.
The quote, the metrics, the photograph — all of it. The Forge team supports every word; the operator carries the page. If you've been waiting for the moment that earns you the badge, this is it.
Two Charter seats open for energy storage and BESS. The vertical is in Charter development — the first operators in shape what ships.
Apply for Charter3-MIN ASSESSMENT →The honest answers,
without the sales gloss.
No — and we won't pretend otherwise. Energy storage / BESS is a vertical Forge is expanding into, currently in Charter development. The shipping verticals today are roofing, security and fire, AV and low-voltage, solar, HVAC, and electrical. The estimating assemblies, the NFPA 855 / UL 9540A permit drawer, and the storage incentive model described here are built to, not yet shipped. Charter members in this vertical shape what ships and get it first.
Hyperion's accuracy figure today — ±0.8% on commercial flat and low-slope geometry, ±2% on complex geometry — is published as methodology and a sample plan at /proof/hyperion-accuracy, and graduates to a measured benchmark after independent third-party verification. For storage, the same LiDAR instrument is designed to as-build the equipment room or yard, capture NFPA 855 clearance volumes, and produce ground-truth dimensions for the submittal. That storage capability is in development, not a shipped result.
That's the intent. Treasury is designed to model standalone-storage ITC, MACRS depreciation, state rebates, and demand-charge / arbitrage value side by side so the customer-facing and operator-facing economics are both honest. Because the vertical is in Charter development, the exact models ship in step with Charter operator input rather than as a present-day feature.
by application: $27,000 prepaid for 36 months (~$750/mo equivalent), locked forever, ten seats. Public pricing is a la carte: Forge Core $499/mo flat (unlimited users, no per-seat) plus modules (Hyperion $399, Atlas $149, Torch $99, Treasury $99 + $8/employee, Sigil $49, Calliope $149/function, Mentor $79/rep, Herald $59/rep), packaged as Starter $299, the Working Stack about $900 (Core + Hyperion + Sigil), and Full Platform about $1,999. Two energy-storage Charter seats are open. The first operators in help build the drawer and earn the badge on this page.
0 of 2 energy storage · bess seats
filled.
Charter is the operator who builds with the new tools first. Ten seats across all trades. Locked when filled. The rate doesn't move — ever — while the public list rises around you.
The needs have been the same for 4,000 years.
Storing power for when it's needed is one of the newest problems on the grid. Forge is being built to be the chest for the operator solving it.