Reduce (or eliminate) peak demand charges
Maximize your savings and minimize disruption with Voltus’s customizable peak demand charge avoidance program.
What are peak demand charges?
Peak demand charges are electricity costs that energy users incur based on their usage during a specific period of time. Reducing your load during these periods keeps your electricity costs down. These charges are forecasted to increase or remain high across the U.S. and Canada.
Voltus creates a program for you based on your operational limits and savings goals
Chasing peaks on your own or relying on free notifications can result in wasted effort and lost production time. We work with customers to understand their operational limits and create a program that respects those limits while maximizing the value of their curtailment efforts.
Voltus makes peak demand avoidance clear, time-efficient, and accountable
1. Tailor
Voltus customizes a program based on your savings goals and/or curtailment limits.
2. Predict
Voltus uses AI to analyze multiple variables, including weather patterns, geography, historical peaks and trends, forecasted peaks, and the impact of other customers on load, to dispatch when it’s most economical for your business.
3. Prepare
Voltus sends weekly, day-ahead, day-of, and hour-of forecasts that help your business plan load reductions.
4. Participate
Voltus sends a clear go/no-go decision for when your site should reduce load usage and by how much to curtail. Your performance can be good, better, or best - there’s no risk, only upside.
5. Co-optimize
If you’re also enrolled in other demand response programs, we automatically co-optimize between programs to maximize earnings and savings.
6. Report & Share
The Voltus platform shows your quantified kW and savings, breaking it down per dispatch and the value per hour curtailed.
A customer saved hundreds of thousands of dollars...
Thanks to Voltus’s clarity, expertise, and platform visibility.
“It’s imperative that we do everything within our power to reduce our peak demand charges. We’ve been enrolled in Voltus’s Peak Saver program for five years and have successfully saved hundreds of thousands of dollars without causing any disruption to our operations. We especially benefit from their comprehensive communications, market expertise, and platform, which gives us a view into our savings and real-time and post-event dispatch performance.“