Peak analysis
Interval data analysed to find which equipment, at which moment, sets your monthly demand charge.
Energy Services
Demand-Side Management
For most commercial accounts, demand charges are a quarter to a half of the bill, and they are set by a handful of fifteen-minute intervals across the whole month. Demand-side management attacks that directly: identifying the peaks, shifting or curtailing the loads that cause them, automating the response, and enrolling the same flexibility in programmes that pay you for it.
Commercial Community Residential
What this covers
- Peak identification from interval data
- Automated load shedding and sequencing
- Demand response programme enrolment
- Thermal and battery storage for load shifting
By the numbers
- 25-50%
- Share of bill from demand charges
- 15 min
- Interval that sets the charge
- Automated
- Response without staff intervention
Always free
Free energy analysis & consultation
Before you spend anything, we measure the property and rank every improvement by payback. The analysis and the consultation are both free, with no obligation to go ahead.
- Free energy analysis
- Free consultation
In detail
Everything included in demand-side management
Load shifting
Pre-cooling, thermal storage, batch scheduling and process sequencing that move consumption off the peak.
Automated demand control
Controllers that shed or stage non-critical loads before a new peak is established, without human intervention.
Demand response enrolment
Registration and performance management in utility and grid-operator programmes that pay for curtailment.
Storage for peak shaving
Batteries discharged precisely against demand peaks, sized from your measured load shape.
Process scheduling
Industrial and commercial process timing reviewed against tariff structure and peak windows.
How we work
A sequence that keeps the project honest
- 01
Measure
A full year of interval data reveals the true peak pattern.
- 02
Attribute
Submetering identifies which equipment drives each peak.
- 03
Design
Shifting, shedding and storage combined into one strategy.
- 04
Automate
Controls implemented so response does not depend on anyone remembering.
- 05
Enrol
Flexibility registered in every programme that will pay for it.
Good to know
Common questions
Something not covered here? Ask us directly - we would rather answer it properly than have you guess.
Ask a questionWhat is a demand charge?
A charge based on your highest rate of consumption during the billing period, usually measured over fifteen minutes, rather than on total energy used. One badly timed simultaneous start-up can set a charge you then pay for the entire month.
Will this affect operations?
It should not. We target loads with genuine flexibility - thermal mass, deferrable pumping, charging, non-critical process steps - and set limits with your operations team before anything is automated.
Can we get paid for participating?
In most territories, yes. Capacity and demand-response programmes pay for committed curtailment, and the same equipment that lowers your demand charge usually qualifies.
Works well with
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Continuous oversight of how your buildings and assets consume energy - metering, analytics, automated control and someone accountable for the number.
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Lower bills without new hardware - rate optimisation, tariff switching, billing error recovery, demand-response enrolment and supplier procurement.
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Owner-side advisory and project administration for islandable, resilient power at campuses, industrial parks, municipal sites, hospitals and communities.
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Next step
Let us start with the numbers
A measured energy analysis tells you which improvements actually pay, and in what order. It is the cheapest thing we do and the most useful place to begin.
- No-obligation consultation and budget guidance
- Independent - we answer to you, not to a contractor
- Incentives handled, permits tracked for you
- Warranty paperwork collected and registered in your name