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Reconciling this month’s bill against the 15-minute intervals.
Illustrative building. Hover or click a role.
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Every building ranked by what it’s worth to act on.
Building 1 of 13
Irvine, CA
UtilitySouthern California EdisonMarketCAISOLoad factor44%
What sets the bill here
Time-of-use energy plus demand charges, with the highest prices from 4 to 9 pm.
Top lever: Shift the late-afternoon peak. Pre-cool before 4 pm and stagger equipment start.
Illustrative · portfolio average load factor 49%
Illustrative portfolio. Market regions shaded by state as an approximation; real market boundaries follow utility territories, not state lines (Chicago’s ComEd, for example, sits in PJM). Load factors are example values.
As rates change, programs open and buildings change how they run, Yora flags when the order should change, so the next decision is always the one that adds the most value.
Down to one building
Building 1 of 13: what the team found.
● Example building · 180,000 ft² office · Irvine, CA15-minute intervals · one week · load factor 49%
What sets the bill
900 kW
One 15-minute interval, Wed 3:30 pm.
How long it lasted
45 min
Time within 5% of that peak, out of 168 hours.
What the building needs
437 kW
Average demand. Everything above it is capacity you pay to reserve.
Example building · annual electricity costDemand 35% · Energy 62% · Fixed 3%
Today
$676,960
After actions
$540,551
Annual saving
$136,409 · 20%
Tariff fit−$27k / yr
Move to the rate that fits the measured load shape; about 4% of the bill in this example. No capex.
Operations−$28k / yr
Stagger start-up, trim after-hours base load: 60 kW off the peak and 3% less energy. No capex.
Battery−$40k / yr
Right-sized storage shaves a further 150 kW from the monthly peak. Capex or ESA.
Solar−$41k / yr
A 250 kW array offsets about 375 MWh a year of daytime energy. Capex or PPA.
Illustrative figures for the example building above: 900 kW peak, $22/kW-month demand charge, $0.11/kWh energy. Yora models battery and solar together as one system for a real quote; the levers here are shown separately for clarity and are not additive guarantees.
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Every building, utility and market plays by different rules. Nobody is watching all three. Yora is, 24/7.
Your building
How you use power
Start-up surges, after-hours base load, a chiller that peaks on the hottest afternoon. Each building runs differently, even two of the same type.
15-min intervalsweatheroccupancy
Your utility
How you pay for it
Demand charges, time-of-use windows, ratchets and riders turn the same load into very different bills from one service territory to the next.
tariffsratchetscontract floors
The market
What it costs the grid
Capacity auctions, coincident-peak tags and new load from AI data centers change the price of your peak even when your building changes nothing.
capacity prices5CP / 4CPgrid events
~50%
Average load factor across the 2,071 commercial buildings Novele has measured.
Novele measurement data
30–70%
Share of a commercial electricity bill that can come from demand charges alone.
Clean Energy Group / NREL
3,700+
U.S. utilities, each publishing its own rate structures and rules.
OpenEI Utility Rate Database
11.5×
Rise in PJM’s capacity price between the 2024/25 and 2027/28 delivery years.
PJM Base Residual Auctions
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Everything your CFO needs to say yes.
Approval package · prepared by YoraIllustrative · fictional building
Building 1 of 13
Irvine, CA · 180,000 ft² office
Recommendation
Switch tariff, stagger start-up, and install a 150 kW battery.
Because
1A 900 kW peak lasting 45 minutes sets the demand charge for the whole month.
2Average load is 437 kW, less than half the peak.
3The current tariff is not the best fit for this load shape.
Proposals received · choose one
Annual saving
$95,159
Cost
$172,000
Simple payback
1.8 yrs
10-year return
453%
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