Run your battery like a power station.
Five years of power-station operating experience, now working for your business to lower demand charges and energy costs, with your production needs and backup limits built into the plan.
For factories, cold stores, warehouses, farms, retail and offices with a battery, with or without solar, or planning one.
Which half-hour sets the demand charge?
An example summer day at a cold store with rooftop solar, on a demand tariff. It’s the busiest day of the month. Green is what the roof supplies and grey is what comes from the grid. The demand charge counts only the grid part. Tap the half-hour you think sets it.
in this example month
Go on, take a guess. Tap the chart.
What makes up your electricity bill, and where Aivy can help.
A battery can lower a business power bill in three ways: smaller demand charges, energy shifted to cheaper hours, and VPP income where a plan suits. Switch the example bill to ‘With Aivy’ to see where.
Tap ‘With Aivy’. I’ll wait.
Illustration only, not a savings estimate. The gold part shows where the saving comes from.
- Peak-time energy
- Off-peak energy
- Demand charge
- Daily supply and other fixed charges
- Possible saving
- Grid income
Shave the demand peak.
One busy half-hour can set the demand charge for the month, or on some network tariffs for the year. We find it on your bill, and Aivy keeps charge ready.
Use stored power when it costs most.
Store solar surplus and the cheapest grid power, then use it when your tariff peaks.
Earn when the grid needs help.
When it suits you, your battery can join an electricity retailer’s VPP plan or service through Aivy, and be paid for it.
Some charges stay as they are.
Daily supply, metering and other fixed charges don’t move with a battery.
Production comes first. You set the backup reserve and the operating limits; Aivy works inside them.
Your industry, your plan.
Every site runs differently, so we build the plan around how you produce and operate: your shifts, processes, trading hours and backup needs. Aivy’s AI keeps learning how your site uses power and refines the plan as it goes.
Three examples
Sunny tomorrow. I’ll bank the midday sun for the 5 pm rush.
Solar carries the middle of the day, so the grid peak lands around 5 pm, when the air-con is still running and the sun is fading. Aivy stores the midday surplus and uses it to cover that peak.
Little solar, so the whole afternoon draws from the grid. Aivy sees it coming the day before, tops up overnight while power is cheap, and covers the afternoon.
Compressors run all day. Solar carries the middle, so the grid peak arrives in the early evening, as the heat lingers and the sun goes. Aivy covers it and always keeps a reserve for the cold chain.
Heavy cloud means little solar for the afternoon. Aivy tops up overnight while power is cheap, covers the long afternoon, and keeps the cold-chain reserve intact.
If your tariff counts demand at any hour, the 6 am start-up spike sets it, because it comes before the sun. Aivy tops up beforehand, covers the spike, stores the midday surplus and uses it in the evening, when tariffs are usually highest.
Cloud means the roof won’t refill the battery by itself. Aivy starts the top-up earlier and adds another at the hours with the lowest forecast price, so the start-up spike and the evening are still covered.
Why it works.
A fixed timer can’t see tomorrow’s weather or plan around next week’s shutdown. Aivy forecasts the day ahead and works your schedule into the plan, using the forecasting and trading strategy we built running power stations.
of battery trading strategy, proven at the power stations we run, where every price spike counts.
of your site’s electricity use, its solar and the wholesale price where it affects your costs or VPP payments, updated through the day.
Aivy’s AI learns your site’s habits, shift by shift, and keeps refining one plan around your solar, battery and production load.
that labels forecasts, estimates and actual results separately.
Something different coming up? Just tell Aivy.
Shutdowns, extra shifts, a big order: one message and the plan changes with you.
We’re closed from 24 December to 2 January.
Got it. While you’re closed I’ll keep your reserve, put spare solar to work, and have the battery full for the first shift back.
Double shift this Wednesday.
Noted. I’ll top up on Tuesday night so Wednesday’s peak is covered.
Getting started is simple.
Start with us. We assess your site, connect a compatible battery or help plan a new system, then manage its day-to-day operation.
- 1
Send us a power bill
Interval data helps if you have it; your retailer or network can send it. Already have a battery? Tell us the brand.
- 2
See the opportunity
We look at your load, solar, tariff and how you operate, and show you where a battery could earn its keep on your site.
- 3
Connect your battery or plan a new system
Already have a battery? We check it’s compatible and connect it to Aivy. If you need a new system, we introduce an accredited installer or EPC we work with to quote and install it.
- 4
Aivy runs it
Inside the limits you set, with a report every month. Big changes wait for your OK.
Questions you might have
Can my existing battery connect?
Often, yes. Supported models from multiple leading brands connect cloud to cloud; we confirm by model.
No solar on the roof. Is a battery still worth it?
It depends on your tariff. Without solar, a battery earns from three things: covering your demand peak, the gap between cheap and expensive hours, and VPP events through Aivy. Demand and time-of-use tariffs create the opportunity; we check whether it covers the cost of the battery and running it. On a flat rate with no demand charge, there is little to shift, and we’ll tell you so, along with what a different tariff could change. Send us a bill and we’ll check.
Do I need to change electricity retailer?
No. Aivy works with your current retailer and tariff. Some VPP plans come with a particular retailer; if one suits you, we’ll explain what it involves before you choose.
My battery is already in a VPP. Does that clash with Aivy?
Not if one system runs the battery. With Aivy, the retailer’s VPP connects through us, so VPP events and your daily plan are worked out together, and your reserve is kept either way. Tell us which VPP you are in and we’ll check how it connects today.
Who sets the limits, and what happens in an outage?
You do, and Aivy works inside them. If your system is designed for backup, your reserve is there when the grid goes down. The battery’s own protections always come first.
Do you install or sell batteries?
No. Accredited installers and EPCs we work with quote, contract and install. Start with us and we’ll introduce the right one.
Where do you work?
Across the National Electricity Market: Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.
Now let’s look at your site.
Start with a recent electricity bill. Interval data, if you have it, shows us your demand peaks.
Let’s talk