Peak demand reduction only creates value when it can be measured, verified, and trusted over time.

Verified Peak Demand Reduction provides independent, continuous analytics that quantify changes in peak-demand behavior across comparable conditions. The solution measures whether peak reduction occurred, by how much, and whether it persists — without prescribing strategies, dispatching controls, or aggregating load.

Utilities, customers, and partners determine how demand is reduced. Pathian independently measures and verifies what changed.

Rather than focusing on single event response or short-term dispatch performance, Verified Peak Demand Reduction evaluates peak-demand behavior over time.

Using normalized baselines and verified interval data, the solution compares peak performance across defined periods — such as pre- vs. post-implementation or year-over-year — under comparable operating conditions.

This approach enables credible verification of structural peak reduction without relying on deemed savings, modeled assumptions, or event-specific extrapolation.

Verified Peak Demand Reduction establishes pre-project peak baselines derived from measured behavior.

Once established, these baselines persist and serve as the shared reference for:

• Verification of peak reduction

• Persistence and degradation tracking

• Incentive qualification

• Planning and regulatory evaluation

Peak reduction is evaluated against a stable, transparent benchmark rather than recalculated for each event or filing.

Peak Baselines and Benchmarks

Establishes normalized baselines for peak-demand behavior across portfolios, facilities, systems, and components.

Change Detection and Persistence

Quantifies reductions in peak demand and verifies whether those reductions persist over time under comparable conditions.

Incentive Alignment

Supports peak-focused Habit-Based Incentives (HBI) and Component-Based Incentives (CBI) by providing repeatable, auditable measurement of peak reduction outcomes.

Verified Peak Demand Reduction operates across multiple levels of aggregation:

• Utility and enterprise portfolios

• Individual facilities or campuses

• Central plants and systems

• Discrete components such as chillers, pumps, and motors

This enables peak reduction to be verified at the level most relevant to programs, incentives, and planning — without losing traceability to measured behavior.

Because peak behavior is measured continuously against persistent baselines, qualification, verification, and incentive determination can be automated.

Once defined thresholds are met, outcomes no longer require manual studies, event-by-event reconciliation, or post-hoc adjustment. Decisions proceed based on measured results rather than interpretation.

This enables peak reduction programs to scale without increasing administrative burden.

The solution produces audit-ready outputs suitable for regulatory review and grid planning, including:

• Verified peak kW reduction metrics

• Persistence and degradation tracking

• Transparent baselines and calculations

All outputs are derived from the same standardized measurement and verification logic used across the Pathian platform, ensuring consistency across programs and jurisdictions.

Utilities, customers, and partners

• Implement demand-reduction strategies

• Define programs, tariffs, and incentives

Pathian

• Independently measures peak-demand behavior

• Verifies change and persistence

• Provides standardized, regulator-ready analytics

Verified Peak Demand Reduction turns peak demand from an episodic event into a measured, persistent capacity outcome.

By anchoring peak reduction to continuous measurement, the solution enables automation, incentive alignment, and planning-grade confidence — making peak demand reduction a scalable, repeatable platform capability rather than a one-off program.