Large loads & data centers
Bring your own supply. Ask the grid for less.
Data centers and industrial loads can connect faster when on-site solar, storage and flexibility reduce the capacity they need from the grid.
Talk about your projectPower-Ready, before the tenant is named
Demand for power-ready industrial and commercial property is being driven by energy-intensive uses that many utilities cannot serve on the timeline the customer wants. A Power-Ready assessment tells an owner what the site can support now, and what on-site supply would change in the utility request.
Data centers and AI infrastructure
Studied early, so the grid request matches a design that can still change.
Advanced manufacturing
Load shape, process peaks, and what storage or flexible operation would remove from the study.
EV charging and fleets
Phased energization so the first stalls are not waiting on the full buildout.
Life sciences and research
Sites that cannot treat a long outage as an acceptable plan.
Why owners ask
A property that can show capacity is easier to lease, less dependent on a utility upgrade schedule, and worth more to the next user.
The behind-the-meter menu
Options to evaluate before defaulting to on-site natural gas.
Solar
On-site or adjacent generation sized to the site and to available hosting capacity.
Battery storage
Shave peaks, firm solar and support phased energization.
Thermal & ice storage
Shift cooling load out of peak hours.
Flexible load management
Data-center workloads that can flex during grid peaks reduce the firm capacity required.
Containerized solar + storage
Pre-engineered, modular units that deploy quickly and scale with the load.
Microgrid-ready designs
Designed for backup and islanding from the start, with room to grow. Full-feeder and partial-feeder versions when the utility is the client.
A rooftop portfolio that reused the gear it had
San Joaquin County agricultural processor
Eleven roofs at three facilities — 232 kWdc, 670 kWdc, and 1.03 MWdc. The interconnection design kept the existing switchgear and transformer and avoided at least $200,000. The Stockton site covers 86% of its load and saves about $230,000 a year. Ripon saves about $223,000 a year and Linden about $50,000. The same questions apply to a large-load site. What equipment is already there, and what does the study assume has to be replaced?
Peak versus average
Studied at peak, operated below it
Data center facilities are often studied at their full peak demand, while average utilization runs well below that peak. Flexible load and on-site storage can raise utilization of the grid capacity that is built, and reduce what needs to be requested in the first place.
Containerized compute, paired with solar and storage
We are developing a containerized solar-plus-storage product with a 1 MW IT containerized compute option, expected in the second half of 2027. Advisory only. The hardware is delivered with licensed partners.
Data centers paired with solar and storage
Modular capacity that can be sited where distribution hosting capacity already exists.
Start early. Size it right.
A short call is enough to see whether behind-the-meter options fit your large-load pipeline.
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