FREE INDUSTRY WHITEPAPER
80% of Your Energy Costs From 20% of Your Assets.
Do You Know Which 20%?
Your monthly utility bill confirms what you spent, but says nothing about which production line is eroding your margin, which machine runs all night for no reason, or which five summer hours will lock in next year’s capacity charges.
This whitepaper shows PJM manufacturers how to finally see it all, and turn that visibility into hard savings and new revenue.
The Five Hours That Set Next Year's Bill Are Coming. Will You See Them This Time?
Download the FREE Whitepaper to discover.
What's Inside the Whitepaper
Seven pages. Two connected playbooks. One investment that pays off in more than one place.
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Many manufacturing companies don't think their load is flexible enough to participate in peak savings and grid programs.
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This guide is here to show you what you should consider to solve curtailment issues using equipment-level metering.
- You won't lose production, but you'll gain further visibility into your assets, and additional revenue streams.
Without equipment-level visibility, your team can't answer the questions that matter most:
- Which production lines are most expensive to operate?
- Are there assets driving avoidable costs we haven't identified?
- How does energy intensity vary by product, shift, or process?
- Where are operational inefficiencies quietly eroding our margins?
- Which systems drive our PJM capacity charges?
FAQ
Equipment-level energy monitoring places real-time sensors on individual assets such as motors, compressors, conveyors, HVAC, and furnaces, then groups them into production line and cost center views. Instead of one facility-wide number, you see exactly where energy and cost are being generated.
ndustry data shows most plants reduce energy costs by 12 to 18 percent through submetering deployment alone, typically with ROI in 12 to 18 months. For a facility spending $500,000 a year on energy, that is roughly $60,000 to $90,000 in direct annual savings, before any grid program revenue.
What is 5CP management in PJM? In PJM, your capacity charges for the following year are set by your electricity usage during the five single-highest demand hours of the summer. Facilities that reduce load during those five hours lock in lower capacity charges for the entire next year. Effective 5CP management can save as much as $98,000 per MW annually.
The 2026/27 PJM auction cleared at a record $329.17 per MW-day, more than eleven times the 2024/25 price. That sharp increase makes demand-side participation far more valuable for industrial facilities with load flexibility.
Yes. PJM’s Capacity Performance rules require 15-minute interval metering and documented load reduction against a verified baseline. Equipment-level monitoring provides both the metering foundation and the production-line visibility that makes curtailment precise instead of disruptive.
The Five Hours That Set Next Year's Bill Are Coming. Will You See Them This Time?
The visibility gap is a data problem, and it is solvable. Download the whitepaper and get the full two-part framework: the direct operational ROI of equipment-level monitoring, and the step-by-step path to PJM grid revenue using the very same infrastructure.