Solar Energy
Offset production loads with large rooftop or ground-mount arrays; manufacturers have the roof area to host 500 kW–5 MW.
Details →Industry
Energy solutions for manufacturing and industrial facilities
Manufacturers carry the largest demand-charge exposure of any sector. ecojiva delivers integrated energy solutions that protect your production, your margins and your competitiveness.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Key energy challenges
Production-driven load
Compressed air, process heat, motors, welding, ovens and material handling follow the production schedule, not the utility’s peak window.
Reliability critical
Sags and outages scrap batches, damage tooling and idle crews; automotive and aerospace supply chains penalize missed shipments.
Energy intensive
Large, continuous loads make electricity a top-five cost and a supplier-scorecard emissions line.
High demand & peaks
Shift starts, furnace and compressor cycles and HVAC coincide to set demand peaks that ratchet across the year.
Cost pressure
PJM and MISO capacity costs and utility rate cases have pushed industrial delivery rates up double digits since 2024 in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Regulatory compliance
ISO 50001 energy management, customer ESG requirements and state benchmarking laws increasingly demand documented energy performance.
Integrated solutions
ecojiva solutions will deliver results for your industry
Six solutions, engineered as one system and operated by ecoSEMS®, the AI platform that ties generation, storage and load control together.
Battery Storage
Reduce demand peaks from shift starts, compressors, furnaces and HVAC; defeat ratchets and capacity charges.
Details →ecoSEMS® Controls
ecoSEMS sequences production-support loads, forecasts peaks and delivers measured savings and ISO 50001-ready energy records.
Details →FAQ
Questions from manufacturing & industrial operators
Our production schedule cannot change. Can ecoSEMS still save money?
Yes. Most demand-charge savings come from support loads (compressed air, HVAC, chillers, lighting, battery charging) and from preventing coincident starts, not from changing production. Where production is truly fixed, battery storage does the peak shaving instead.
How do capacity charges affect manufacturers?
In PJM states (Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, parts of Illinois, Indiana and Michigan) the capacity price rose sharply for the 2025/26 and 2026/27 delivery years and is allocated by each customer’s load during system peak hours. Reducing your peak-hour load with ecoSEMS and storage lowers that allocation for the following year.
