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Load Management

You manage what you buy.

Procurement sets what you pay per kWh. Load management sets what you pay for being on the grid - capacity, demand, and ancillary charges - and turns the operational flexibility you already have into revenue rather than cost.

Why it matters

The demand side is where the bill quietly grows.

Capacity and demand charges are the fastest-growing part of most bills - and the part almost no one actively manages. Four places that exposure hides:

Failure mode 01

Capacity exposure mispriced internally

Capacity tags set a year of charges off a handful of peak hours. If no one's forecasting them, you're budgeting blind against a number you could have lowered.

Failure mode 02

Demand response revenue left on the table

ISO and utility programs pay loads to be flexible. Most eligible operations never enroll - leaving real, recurring revenue uncollected.

Failure mode 03

Peak hours run without intervention

The few hours that set your capacity charge pass unmanaged because operations never got the alert. Knowing the peak window is half the savings.

Failure mode 04

BTM assets installed without strategy

Solar, storage, and CHP get bought on vendor math, then run without dispatch logic tied to market signals - leaving most of the value stream unrealized.

What we do

A toolkit, not a one-size playbook.

The right intervention depends on your load profile, market, and operations. Pilot runs whichever of these earn their place - and coordinates them with your procurement strategy.

Area 01

Demand Response

Get paid to be flexible.

  • Program eligibility analysis across ISO/RTO and utility offerings
  • Operational impact modeling vs revenue scenarios
  • Enrollment, baseline establishment, and dispatch coordination
  • Performance and payment verification
Area 02

Capacity Tag Management

Lower the charge at the source.

  • Peak hour forecasting (PJM 5CP, NYISO ICAP, ISO-NE ICR, ERCOT 4CP)
  • Real-time peak alerts and coordination with operations
  • Post-event tag verification and reconciliation
  • Year-over-year capacity exposure analysis
Area 03

Behind-the-Meter Generation

On-site supply, run right.

  • Technology fit and sizing analysis (solar, fuel cell, reciprocating gas)
  • Financing structure evaluation (CapEx, PPA, lease)
  • Wholesale market dispatch strategy and integration
  • Vetted-partner sourcing for installation and O&M
Area 04

Battery Storage

Stack the value streams.

  • Multi-value-stream economics modeling per site
  • Sizing optimization (kW vs kWh) against load profile
  • Dispatch logic design and integration
  • Vetted-partner sourcing for procurement, installation, and software
Area 05

Combined Heat & Power

Thermal and electric together.

  • Thermal and electric load profile analysis
  • Project economics with fuel hedge integration
  • Vetted-partner sourcing for EPC and O&M
  • Coordinated operations with procurement and DR strategy

What lands in your inbox

What you get.

Load profile analysis

Your consumption shape mapped against capacity, demand, and DR opportunities - the baseline every intervention is sized from.

Intervention strategy

Which tools earn their place for your sites, sequenced by payback - not a vendor's catalog.

Peak event alerts & coordination

Real-time notice of the hours that set your capacity charge, coordinated directly with your operations team.

DR enrollment & performance management

Enrollment, baselines, dispatch, and payment verification - the program run, not just signed up for.

Asset advisory packages

For BTM, storage, or CHP: technology fit, financing, dispatch logic, and vetted-partner sourcing.

Capacity exposure tracking in PowerUp

Year-over-year tag exposure and intervention results, live on the same dashboard Pilot works from.

Run turnkey or co-managed - same team either way. Solutions →

What goes with this

Related solutions.

Solution 01

Procurement & Risk

Supply strategy and load strategy are two halves of the same bill. Run together, they reinforce each other.

Procurement & Risk →
Solution 02

Direct Access

Capacity tags, DR, and BTM dispatch all execute against wholesale signals - Direct Access makes the demand-side strategy more powerful.

Direct Access →
Solution 03

Utility Invoice Verification

The capacity and demand charges audited on the bill are exactly what load management goes after at the source.

Invoice verification →
Solution 05

Decarbonization

BTM solar and storage sit at the intersection of load strategy and carbon goals - sized once, for both.

Decarbonization →

Want a capacity exposure read?

Tell us your markets and load profile. We'll estimate what your capacity tags are costing you - and what managing them could recover.