Building Load Management
Commercial buildings are billed on their single highest 15-minute draw — and EV chargers spike it. In partnership with EVready Energy, Faith Energy deploys Guardian: rate-aware load management that holds the peak, dodges the service upgrade, and documents every dollar — with our own crews performing the field work end to end.
Measure · Optimize · Monetize
Guardian sits above your charging networks and your meter — one intelligence layer across the whole building.
Live meter data and charger telemetry stream against your exact utility tariff — seasonal rates, time-of-use windows, ratchet clauses. Our electricians install the metering hardware on your panels and gear; clean data is a field-work problem before it's a software one.
When simultaneous charging threatens the demand threshold, Guardian throttles or queues sessions for minutes at a time — drivers barely notice, the 15-minute interval never spikes, and every intervention is logged for the savings report.
Beyond avoidance: demand-response revenue, tariff optimization, and battery or solar arbitrage turn the building into an energy asset. The same platform manages HVAC, lighting, and storage alongside the chargers.
Guardian unifies mixed hardware and networks — ChargePoint, Blink, Tesla, EV Connect and more — on one dashboard. No rip-and-replace; your existing chargers become manageable.
Service and switchgear upgrades run $8,000–$25,000+ and months of utility lead time. Managed power sharing frequently makes them unnecessary — and our EV-ready phased designs defer them honestly when they're not.
Published 30-day cases: a Baltimore dealership cut its peak from 563.6 kW to 57.9 kW (≈$5,600/month); a New Jersey depot from 240 kW to 105.6 kW (≈$7,100). Typical recovery: 35–55% of added demand charges; payback in 6–18 months.
Strategic Partnership
Where It Pays Fastest
DC fast chargers hit demand meters hardest — DCFC-heavy sites often see payback in months. Dealerships juggling OEM charging mandates, fleet depots scaling routes, and multifamily buildings unlocking resident charging without a service upgrade are where we deploy Guardian most.
Straight Answers
Demand charges — billed on your single worst 15-minute interval, often 30–70% of a commercial bill. Simultaneous charging spikes it, and ratchet clauses can lock 80–90% of that peak into your bills for the next 11–12 months.
Sessions are queued or trimmed for minutes at a time, usually invisibly — a vehicle needing four hours of charge doesn't notice a five-minute shave. Hard cutoffs aren't part of the design.
No. Guardian works above your existing networks and hardware. The field additions are metering and integration — work our electricians do in a day or two on most sites.
That's the best time. Rate-aware design plus load management frequently means smaller service, less switchgear, and a project that pencils where the naive design didn't.
Next Step
A recent bill and your charger count is enough for a demand-charge review — what you're paying, what's recoverable, and what Guardian would do about it.