Demand Response
Get paid to be flexible.
- Program eligibility across ISO/RTO and utility offerings
- Operational impact vs revenue modeling
- Enrollment, baseline, and dispatch coordination
- Performance and payment verification
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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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 operations coordination
- Post-event tag verification and reconciliation
- Year-over-year capacity exposure analysis
Behind-the-Meter Generation
On-site supply, run right.
- Technology fit and sizing (solar, fuel cell, reciprocating gas)
- Financing structure evaluation (CapEx, PPA, lease)
- Wholesale market dispatch strategy
- Vetted-partner sourcing for installation and O&M
Battery Storage
Stack the value streams.
- Multi-value-stream economics per site
- Sizing optimization (kW vs kWh) against load profile
- Dispatch logic design and integration
- Vetted-partner sourcing across the stack
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.
What goes with this
Related solutions.
Procurement & Risk
Supply strategy and load strategy are two halves of the same bill. Run together, they reinforce each other.
Procurement & Risk →Direct Market Access
Capacity tags, DR, and BTM dispatch all execute against wholesale signals - Direct Access makes the demand-side strategy more powerful.
Direct Market Access →Utility Bill & Tariff Analysis
The capacity and demand charges audited on the bill are exactly what load management goes after at the source.
Utility Bill & Tariff Analysis →Decarbonization & Sustainability
BTM solar and storage sit at the intersection of load strategy and carbon goals - sized once, for both.
Decarbonization & Sustainability →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.