The Challenge

Revel Energy, a commercial solar EPC company based in Irvine, California, needed an energy storage solution for a sustainable denim processing plant in Gardena, California. The facility is a sustainable processing facility for clothing that aims to recycle cutting waste, polybags, and separate recycling waste from others to improve the fashion industry by only producing what’s needed. 

The plant was enrolled in Southern California Edison’s NEM Aggregation program with two aggregated meters, each with its own PV array, 488 kW and 553 kW. Despite these PV systems, the plant still experienced high demand charges under SCE’s GS-3-TOU-D rate schedule. Revel Energy wanted to design an energy storage solution that could integrate with the site’s existing PV systems, maximize PV generation, and reduce demand charges. 

The Solution

Revel Energy turned to Energy Toolbase to meet its project’s energy storage and intelligent controls needs. The project was modeled in ETB Developer to include a rate switch from rate option GS-3-TOU-D to E, secure SGIP funding, and optimize system sizing. After modeling, Energy Toolbase procured two Socomec batteries, an HES L 50/186 and an HES L 250/558, integrated with ETB Controller with Acumen AI™. ETB Controller works to charge the batteries with excess PV generation and discharge them during periods of peak demand, based on historical and active consumption data, to reduce the impact of costly demand charges. Energy Toolbase acts as the Performance Data Provider by collecting, analyzing, and reporting performance data to ensure continued SGIP compliance. Comprehensive insight into the system’s functionality, performance, and compliance is provided by ETB Monitor.