What is demand charge management (DCM)?

Demand charges are part of many commercial and industrial electricity bills and are based on the highest amount of power (kW) consumed over a 15-30 minute period during a customer’s monthly billing period. Some utilities charge customers very high costs per kW for these periods of highest use.

These customers can reduce the demand charges they pay to their utility by lowering the amount of electricity their building or site uses during these peak times.

Fermata Energy’s V2X software platform utilizes historic and real-time building load data to respond to a site’s peak power consumption, reducing these costly charges. By discharging electricity stored in an EV battery during the building’s peak usage periods, the customer uses fewer kWs from the utility when costly demand charges are incurred.