AI-Powered Energy Storage Optimizing the timing of energy use with Stem Randy Palombi Vice President of Sales
AI-Powered Energy Storage Optimizing the timing of energy use with Stem
Randy Palombi Vice President of Sales
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Year Founded: 2009
Offices: Millbrae, CA, Newport Beach CA, Seattle, WA, and Honolulu, HI
Operations: CA, HI, NY, TX
Employees: 140+
Installed: 330 sites, 102 in SCE
Contracted & Installed: 774 sites, 205 in SCE
Project Finance $500 million
ANGELENO GROUP
High caliber global investors Stem customers include
Stem’s Headquarters in Millbrae, California
Stem operates the world’s largest!AI-powered energy storage network!
Stem Overview
Timing is everything. Your energy costs are increasingly driven by when you use energy, not by how much.
60% of utility bill based on timing, and growing
Demand response
Solar net export
Demand charges
Wholesale prices
Time of use rates
Capacity charges
Brain power. Not battery power.
Facility Hotel in CA System size 700 kWh Savings $49,100 / year
It’s all about the intelligence. Optimizing timing of energy use takes more than a battery.
Stem model: A win-win for customers and the grid
Utility or ISO
• Automated energy savings and/or space lease payment
• DR revenues • Protection from changing
rates
• Stronger grid for the community • Enable renewable power
• Subscription / fixed fee
Stem Service model
AI-powered solution
Networked Grid-connected
Financial benefits
Social benefits
Service payment
Private and public sector
Energy to relieve grid congestion
Payment for reliable delivery
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What is LCR? • Interactive grid program from SCE • Relieves capacity shortfall to maintain a resilient grid • Sustainable alternative to natural gas peaker plants • LCR spans West LA Basin and Orange County
How do we help? • Stem’s customer-sited systems create a virtual power
plant • When grid is strained, SCE requests capacity • Athena optimizes energy timing and LCR response • Grid Rewards lowers your service fee
LCR qualifying geography
Stem is operating 36 sites and 4.2 MW in LCR. Stem has contracted an additional 77 sites and 17.1 MW in LCR.
LCR: Supporting a reliable grid in OC and West LA
LBA Realty installed the world’s largest indoor energy storage system at Park Place to reduce operating costs and to support sustainability efforts. In addition to providing value for the owners and tenants, this system participates in Stem Grid Rewards with Southern California Edison to help relieve grid congestion in the West LA Basin. • System size: 1.3 MW • Annual demand charge reduction: 7% • System lifetime savings over 10 years:
$450,000
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Case study: LBA Park Place
“We continue to demonstrate leadership in enhancing our properties with smart building technologies that increase
sustainability, strengthen the local power grid, and reduce costs for our tenants. The installation of Stem’s cutting-edge technology
is the most recent demonstration of this commitment.”
Perry Schonfeld, Principal and COO, LBA Realty
Soka University is using Stem to reduce operating costs without using staff labor, and to support the university’s dedication to sustainability and creating value. Watch this video about the Soka operations team’s experience with Stem. • System size: 400 kW • System lifetime savings over 10 years:
$780,000
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“Stem made the effort to understand the culture of the campus and its sustainability initiatives so that the project was
relationship based. When this project was presented to the senior administration for consideration, the response was that it was a
‘no brainer.’ The installation and coordination with SCE and municipal building permitting was seamless as well.“
Tom Harkenrider, Chief of Operations, Soka University
Case study: Soka University