Energy Demand Management Solutions & Peak Software

Peak demand charges can make or break the economics of running a data center or industrial facility. For large commercial and industrial energy buyers, the difference between a well-timed curtailment and a missed coincident peak event can mean hundreds of thousands of dollars. Energy demand management solutions that actually work require accurate, timely forecasts.

Amperon's peak demand management software gives data centers and C&I customers the foresight to act before peak events hit.

Built for data centers and C&I

Data centers

Know in advance when the price of electricity in your region will spike and when Coincident Peak Events will occur.

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Large C&I customers

Shift non-essential or energy-intensive operations to avoid the times of day when demand will peak across the power grid.

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Virtual Power Plant (VPP) providers

Anticipate grid peaks in advance and pre-position assets to improve dispatch confidence. Stress test capacity and positions.

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Why industrial customers choose Amperon

“As we build more plants across other parts of the U.S. where rates are subject to coincident peak programs, we plan to leverage the same [Amperon] forecasting capabilities to avoid similar charges.”

Jessica Fleck

Senior Manager of Energy Procurement at Plug Power

“Our virtual power plant utilizes price forecasts and analytics that Amperon helps deliver. We are excited to continue growing with them as our trading desk partner.”

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Matt Duesterberg

Founder and President at OhmConnect

“We use Amperon’s forecasting platform every day to help make better-informed decisions and to optimize our portfolio. It’s been a pivotal tool in our decision-making.”

Trader

at Orsted

“Amperon on Snowflake enables us to easily integrate our different data streams into a single unified view. We value having complete access and control over our analytics and visualization tools.”

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Jack Wang

at Axpo

What C&I customers can do with Amperon

Dodge the price
spikes and peaks

Our energy demand management solutions help you:

Inform energy management decisions

Reduce market exposure

Control costs

Protect margins

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Electricity market insights

Amperon's forecasts predict when electricity prices will rise and fall.

Fine tune your energy management workflows to anticipate price spikes.

Coincident peak forecasts

Our alerts let you know when the grid will experience coincident peaks.

Choose if (and when) to adjust critical operations to avoid transmission charges.

User-friendly platform or API

Forecasts at your fingertips or integrate them into your digital work environment.

Seamlessly access analysis and forecasts via file exports, modern API endpoints, or data platforms like Snowflake.

Seasonal planning

Mid-term demand forecasts provide another input for long-term planning.

Run various scenarios with our analytics to help set budgets and production or operation schedules. Learn more.

Amperon energy demand management solutions

With Amperon's demand forecasting, you receive answers you can trust, delivered in real-time. Sourcing from 25+ years of vetted weather and demand data on the most trusted platform designed exclusively for energy grid operations.

How it works

Data ingestion

We combine Amperon’s Grid Demand Short-Term Forecast with ISO-specific coincident peak program rules. Each program’s measurement window and charge mechanics are encoded into the alert logic.

AI-powered modeling

Amperon’s probability-weighted peak detection model is retrained hourly, delivering a continuously updated probability score that rises as conditions escalate, providing graduated decision points rather than a binary alarm.

Peak alert delivery

Threshold alerts, tailored to each grid and client, are delivered via email or API. Escalating status from Watch to Alert to Critical gives operations teams time to plan and execute curtailments.

Continuous learning loop

Each successive season’s observed peaks feed back into the coincident peak forecasting model, recalibrating on the latest trends to improve accuracy year over year.

Products

Benefits and features

Anticipate how load will respond to weather.

15-day

forecasts

1-hour

granularity in North American ISOs

15-minute

granularity in European TSOs

96-hour

historical forecast slider

25+

global grids

weather vendors

Grid insights updated hourly

Weather scenarios to stress test different weather conditions

Ensemble weather forecast

Breakdown forecasts by Load or Weather Zones

Best-in-class weather inputs

Know how renewables will affect the market

15-day

forecasts

1-hour

granularity in North American ISOs

15-minute

granularity in European TSOs

additional data sets for wind & solar

96-hour

historical forecast slider

25+

global grids

Grid insights updated hourly

Weather scenarios to stress test different weather conditions

Monitor forecasted capacity constraints

Breakdown forecasts by Load or Weather Zones

Best-in-class weather inputs

See where price trends will peak or bottom out.

15-day

forecasts

1-hour

granularity for day-ahead

3-day

real-time forecasts

5-minute

granularity for RT

load zones and hubs

5-minute

model run updates

*ERCOT & API only

Real-time grid actions

Maximize energy arbitrage opportunities

Shift load to avoid high-cost hours and mitigate load risk

Optimize DART spread for your thermal and renewable assets

Inform battery dis/charge operations to capture peak prices

Visualize sub-seasonal and seasonal demand.

46-Day

sub-seasonal forecast updated daily

7-Month

seasonal forecast updated monthly

Hourly

load granularity

9 ISOs/RTOs

and all zones in the United States

Probabilistic

P5-P95 and multiples of 10 available

51 Load

ensembles built from ECMWF's weather forecast

Backtests are available for all US ISOs and European RTOs.

Optimize hedges and power supply up to 7 months out

Manage intra-month and seasonal weather and load volatility

Conduct scenario analysis with 51 forecast outcomes and analog years

Evaluate percentile intervals to support financial and operational decisions

Peak demand success stories

Summer 2025 Heat Wave - PJM

Event:

90+° temps swept across the East Coast in June causing the highest summer demand in 10 years.

Challenge

The ISO was late in detecting demand would spike above 160 GW due to the excessive heat and AC usage.

Amperon result

Amperon forecasted demand to be near 160 GW a full seven days out. Our Day-Ahead accuracy was under .5% for the peak hours of the two highest-demand days.

Impact

Real-time prices soared past $3,000/MWh. Traders using Amperon had a full week to capitalize on price movement before the rest of the market caught on.

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The Emerging Duck Curve - ERCOT

Event:

For regions like ERCOT with substantial amounts of solar, the emerging duck-curve of daily net demand creates a unique risk of power shortages in the early evening as people return home from work and turn on power-hungry appliances.

Challenge

If forecasted wind is lower than expected, then real-time electricity prices spike as the sun starts to set. This causes reliability issues on the grid and retailers scrambling to purchase additional power on the wholesale market.

Amperon result

In the fall, ERCOT saw high net demand in the evening hours due to weak wind during the solar ramp-down. When Day-Ahead LMP prices spiked to $200 on October 25th, Amperon accurately called the demand for that hour within 0.03%

Impact

In ERCOT, Amperon’s net demand forecasts are 30% more accurate than the ISO for the last 12 months, letting retailers mitigate risk during high price times with confidence.

Energy demand and net demand graph showing fluctuating power consumption patterns between 400-700 GW from October 21-25

FAQs from data centers and C&I customers

Reduce commercial, industrial, and data center energy costs with peak demand alerts

Built for data centers and C&I

Data centers

Large C&I customers

Virtual Power Plant (VPP) providers

Why industrial customers choose Amperon

What C&I customers can do with Amperon

Electricity market insights

Coincident peak forecasts

User-friendly platform or API

Seasonal planning

Amperon energy demand management solutions

How it works

Products

Benefits and features

Peak demand success stories

Take control of your energy costs