Case Study: Food Service Partners achieves 10% demand charge reduction with Stem's automated energy storage and PowerScope software

Food Service Partners serves up energy savings with automated storage and easy-to-use software

Food Service Partners, a high-volume commercial kitchen in South San Francisco that produces over 7,000 meals a day, faced high energy bills driven largely by utility demand charges (about 40% of their bill) despite prior efficiency upgrades. To tackle that overlooked cost they partnered with Stem and evaluated Stem’s automated energy storage and PowerScope software.

Stem installed an 18 kW automated, hands-off energy storage (Stem PowerStore) and provided PowerScope visibility and alerts; the system cut monthly demand charges by 10%, delivered savings averaging 230% of the service cost with an annual return rate of 130%, and projects $35,000 in automated 10-year savings. Stem’s solution runs in the background while PowerScope gives actionable alerts that helped the operations team reduce waste and optimize schedules.

Food Service Partners

Mark Harris

General Manager