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Free site value screen

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What can this connection support—and what is that flexibility worth?

Estimate the capacity margin visible from site data, model battery savings under the tariff, and identify the utility evidence still required for an investment-grade decision.

For industrial landlords, property owners, asset managers, large-load teams, and energy developers.

High-level intake first. Sensitive data is scoped separately.

Ask the Grid · Assessment04 / 20

Capacity-margin ledger

Contractual import

25 MW

Observed peak

18 MW

Observed demandPreliminary contractual margin · 7 MW

Preliminary margin is not verified grid headroom.

Equipment ratings, load shape, export rights, protection, feeder conditions, and utility review remain open evidence.

Illustrative example · not an observed asset or customer result

Inside the report

A decision artifact, not a gated brochure.

The output is designed to be reviewed: headline result, evidence, method, uncertainty, and the next data request all live in the same document.

01

Capacity-margin ledger

Contractual import, contractual export, observed peak, load-offset capability, battery charging demand, and unknowns kept as separate quantities.

02

Tariff and bill reconstruction

Before-and-after demand, energy, time-of-use, ratchet, coincident-peak, standby, rider, and export-credit components where the tariff supports them.

03

Peak-shaving dispatch screen

Illustrative battery dispatch under import, export, transformer, state-of-charge, efficiency, reserve, and operating constraints.

04

Value-stack waterfall

Peak shaving, energy arbitrage, demand response, deferred capacity, and any eligible export value layered without double counting.

05

Sensitivity and finance view

Tariff, load growth, export limit, degradation, battery size, CAPEX, and incentive sensitivities—with payback, NPV, or IRR only when the inputs support them.

06

Utility evidence checklist

The agreements, service records, engineering ratings, and utility studies still needed before a preliminary margin can be treated as verified headroom.

Sample pages

The numbers stay attached to their boundary.

Every value below is illustrative. It is not an observed asset, customer result, quote, or promise.

Ask the Grid · Assessment04 / 20

Capacity-margin ledger

Contractual import

25 MW

Observed peak

18 MW

Observed demandPreliminary contractual margin · 7 MW

Preliminary margin is not verified grid headroom.

Equipment ratings, load shape, export rights, protection, feeder conditions, and utility review remain open evidence.

Illustrative example · not an observed asset or customer result

Ask the Grid · Assessment09 / 20

Peak-shaving value screen

Hypothetical 5 MW / 10 MWh battery · illustrative annual value

Demand savings+$420k
Energy savings+$80k
Demand response+$50k
Degradation + O&M−$90k

$460k

Illustrative net / yr

7.6 yr

Simple payback · $3.5m

Export and ancillary-service value are excluded until tariff, market, and interconnection eligibility are documented.

Illustrative example · not an observed asset or customer result

Methodology

The method is part of the deliverable.

A result without provenance is difficult to use and impossible to challenge. The report exposes the evidence, transformations, assumptions, and unresolved gaps that produced the answer.

  1. 01

    Screen the public context

    Resolve the property, utility, tariff candidates, nearby grid context, and interconnection records. Queue MW stays context only.

  2. 02

    Build a capacity ledger

    Keep unused contractual import, unused contractual export, behind-the-meter load offset, and new charging demand separate instead of collapsing them into one headline number.

  3. 03

    Reconstruct the bill

    Apply the actual rate structure to interval load before optimizing anything. If the modeled bill cannot reproduce the historical bill, the dispatch result is not decision-grade.

  4. 04

    Dispatch inside the site boundary

    Model grid import as facility load minus onsite generation plus battery charge minus battery discharge, subject to contractual, equipment, battery, reserve, and operating limits.

  5. 05

    Stack value once

    Add peak shaving, time-of-use arbitrage, demand response, or export value only when each stream is eligible and the same battery capacity is not counted twice.

  6. 06

    Separate screen from approval

    The result distinguishes observed, contractual, screened, and unknown values, then names the utility evidence required for the next decision.

Data ladder

Start light. Earn each stronger claim.

The landing form asks only for enough context to establish coverage. Sensitive records move through a separately scoped handoff only when they materially change the report.

01Screen

Enough to screen

Property address, utility, facility type, recent peak demand, service capacity if known, and the commercial objective.

02Model

Enough to model

At least 12 months of interval load and bills, rate schedule, contract demand, import/export limits, and existing solar, storage, generation, or flexible load.

03Verify

Enough to verify

Service and interconnection agreements, transformer and voltage ratings, utility studies, equipment limits, growth plans, and finance assumptions.

Evidence boundary

What this report will not pretend to know.

  • A preliminary contractual margin is not verified feeder, transformer, or utility-system headroom.

  • Interconnection queue MW is not installed, approved, deliverable, or available capacity and is never added to the site's rights.

  • Wholesale export and ancillary-service value appears only when tariff, market, and interconnection eligibility are documented.

  • No parcel-level engineering conclusion is made from county, ZIP, utility, queue, or hosting-capacity context alone.

Questions

Before you request it.

Is the 7 MW difference between a 25 MW service limit and an 18 MW peak verified headroom?+

No. It is a preliminary contractual margin. Equipment ratings, demand shape, export rights, protection, feeder conditions, and utility review can all change what the site can actually support.

Can you calculate savings from one utility bill?+

A bill can support a first screen, but interval load and at least 12 months of bills are needed to reconstruct demand peaks, ratchets, coincident peaks, and seasonal behavior with useful confidence.

Does nearby interconnection queue capacity establish site rights?+

No. Queue records provide location and development context only. They do not establish installed capacity, deliverability, property rights, or unused service capacity.

Request the assessment

One real asset. One bounded question.

Complete the high-level intake, confirm the request with a free account, and we will deliver the finished report to that verified email after the inputs have been reviewed.

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Request the Interconnection margin + peak shaving

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