Find hidden demand-charge savings before touching hardware.
SolarShield Savings Lab helps solar and battery installers and industrial energy managers estimate how much money a site could save by reducing peak demand charges with smarter battery dispatch — all in simulation, with no risk to live equipment.
30–70%
of an industrial bill can be demand charges
$8–25
per kW-month typical demand rate
< 5 min
from CSV to a savings estimate
0
real hardware commands issued
The problem
You don't pay only for energy. You pay for your worst 15 minutes.
Utilities bill large sites a demand charge based on the single highest spike of grid import in a month — sometimes a brief cloud passing over the solar array while machines run flat out. A battery can shave that spike, but sizing the opportunity usually means guesswork, spreadsheets, or expensive pilots.
SolarShield turns historical interval data into a defensible savings number, so you can make the business case before quoting hardware.
A single monthly peak
How it works
From raw interval data to a savings story in three steps.
Upload site data
Drop in a CSV of timestamped factory load and solar generation — 15-minute interval data works great. Optional battery columns refine the model.
Simulate dispatch
We run a baseline vs. optimized peak-shaving simulation, searching for the lowest grid-import ceiling your battery can actually hold.
See the savings
Get avoided peak demand, monthly and annual demand-charge savings, and an investor-ready report — before anyone touches hardware.
Peak-shaving simulator
Idealized battery dispatch that caps grid import at the tightest feasible threshold, respecting capacity, power, and round-trip efficiency.
Demand-charge math
Per-month baseline vs. optimized peaks turned into dollar savings at your utility's $/kW demand rate.
Lightweight forecasting
A small scikit-learn model anticipates short-horizon solar drops, with a rule-based fallback when data is thin.
Shareable reports
A clean executive report with assumptions, results, and a peak-event table — print straight to PDF for customers and investors.
Quantify the savings. Keep your hands off the hardware.
Try it with built-in sample data, or upload a site you're scoping. You'll have a dashboard and a shareable report in minutes.
Safety & scope
SolarShield Savings Lab is research and simulation software only. It does not control real batteries, inverters, or electrical equipment, and it issues no hardware commands — any “battery dispatch” shown here is simulated. Any real-world deployment would require qualified electrical engineers and vendor-approved integrations. Savings estimates are illustrative and not financial advice.