Case Study: Retail Grocery Company reduces utility costs and earns demand response revenue with Axiom Cloud Virtual Battery

Retail Grocery Company - Customer Case Study

A retail grocery company in Northern California, with thin profit margins, was facing rising utility costs as demand charges represented roughly half of its electricity bill. The company sought a lightweight solution to manage these charges and create a new revenue stream by participating in demand response programs. Vendor Axiom Cloud addressed this challenge with its Virtual Battery™ application for commercial refrigeration.

Axiom Cloud implemented its Virtual Battery solution, which transformed the store's refrigeration system into a flexible energy asset. The app uses machine learning to pre-cool cases and intelligently shed load to reduce peak power consumption. This resulted in approximately $900 in monthly demand charge savings and $400 in demand response revenue, creating over $10,000 in annual value and an estimated $54,000 in benefits over five years for the single store.