Firmness ratings for grid capacity

Turn your energy assets into grid revenue.

We validate how much firm capacity a site can actually deliver, then turn that latent capacity into revenue. ChargeCatalyst is the intelligence layer between your assets and the wholesale energy market, pairing device-level physics and robust optimization with AI agents.

Capacity Readout
Sized To a forecast
Stress-test Before it's sold
Bridged EMS to aggregator
Delivered Firm power
Forecast to delivery, one modelContinuously re-proven
01 Why Now

The grid is strained but demand continues to increase. Every high-energy site is sitting on capacity it could put to work.

Buildings, cold storage, manufacturing and EV charging are large electrical sites that can deliver far more to the grid through the right coordination of on-site batteries, solar and flexible demand. ChargeCatalyst turns that into grid participation, proving how much firm capacity each site can deliver so it can be sold back to the market.

BuildingsCold StorageManufacturingEV ChargingData Centers
02 Platform

We Sit between the Market and the Meter.

Behind every meter is a working microgrid: load, generation, storage and controls. ChargeCatalyst sits between that site and the wholesale market. Our agents design the build, prove its firm capacity, and bridge your EMS to a VPP aggregator that takes it to market.

MarketISO / RTO
Wholesale marketsDemand response
VPP / Market Participantholds the position
Your own market access, or a partner aggregator
↑ firm capacity committedmarket prices & signals ↓
ChargeCatalyst
Agentic AI · we sit here
01 Site Assessor
Plans and sizes the project before it's built.
writes →
Site Model
One shared model of the asset's real physics & limits
optimization core
02 Firmness Engine
Sets the firm envelope and proves what's deliverable.
← reads
↓ set points via the site EMStelemetry & meter data ↑
The Microgrid a working microgrid behind every meter
LOAD SOLAR + EV STORAGE EMS METER GRID EMS

Each agent models the physics of the assets on site, paired with an optimization core that solves for the best design, firm envelope and market offer. Grid participation becomes software built to scale across many sites, instead of a bespoke engineering project run one site at a time.

03 Planning Agent · Site Assessor

Plans & Sizes the Project.

Our planning agent discovers and qualifies sites, runs diligence on what each can deliver, then sizes the build for the full revenue stack. All before anything is committed.

01Discover

Screens sites at scale and qualifies the ones worth building.

Grid capacityZoning & permitsTariffs & rebates
02Due Diligence

Forecasts how each site will be used and grades its confidence.

Demand profileCannibalizationConfidence grade
03Design

Sizes the build for the full revenue stack, then hands it to the Firmness Engine.

StorageSolarLoadRevenue stack
04 Operating Agent · Firmness Engine

Proves Firm Delivery.

Our operating agent sets one firm envelope across every program the asset qualifies for, and proves what it delivers.

The analogy

The Firmness Engine is a credit score for grid assets.

A credit score tells a lender you're good for a loan. The Firmness Engine does the same for power: it rates how much a site will firmly deliver when the grid calls. Rated from device-level physics and re-proven against revenue-grade telemetry, it carries each site through the market's own accreditation and deliverability tests (ELCC, UCAP, DR performance factors). A strong site rates above the class-average derate. A weak one rates below it. You find out before you sell the capacity, not after.

Rated to what the site will deliver, not to a class average.
01
Stress-test every commitment
Tests each bid against heat, demand swings and grid contingencies, so you know what delivers before it's sold.
02
Co-optimize under one envelope
Solves every market program together against the asset's physical limits, so the same megawatt isn't committed twice, stacking only what each market's dual-participation rules allow.
03
Set & prove
Sets the operating envelope through your EMS and confirms delivery against revenue-grade telemetry, calibrating to the asset over time.
Rated capacity vs. class-average derate illustrative
Class-average derate
Site A · dedicated battery, full durationrates above
Site B · dual-use battery, short durationrates below
Each site is rated on its own physics, not a class average. Some land above the market default, some below. That is the number you can commit to.
The deliverable · firmness sheet illustrative · structure only
Firm offer MW
Robust floor (P95) MW
Attribution generation · battery · flexible load
Host load impact Host-clean
Deliverability Tested to ISO rules
One auditable sheet per site, re-proven against telemetry as the assets run.
05 The Value Stack

One Envelope, Multiple Programs.

A site's assets have a single physical limit: what they can firmly deliver. That same envelope is offered across wholesale markets, demand response and bill savings, each settling on its own clock. One firm block of power, co-optimized so the same megawatt isn't committed twice, and stacked only where each market's dual-participation rules allow.

Firm deliverable capacity one physical envelope the site's true limit
Offered across programs, each on its own clock
Wholesale marketsCapacity · energy · ancillary
Demand responseUtility & grid events
Demand-charge savingsBehind the meter

Co-optimized under one physical envelope. Committed once, across every program.

06 Use Case · EV Charging

From Parcel to Market.

We find the site, prove what it can deliver, design the microgrid, and bridge it to the market through a VPP aggregator.

01
Discover
Where grid, site and economics line up
02
Due Diligence
Utilization forecasting
03
Design
Battery + solar, right-sized
04
Go live
In market via a VPP aggregator
Before
Grid power in
Sized for charging load.
It draws power and earns nothing back.
ChargeCatalyst
After
Wholesale marketsDemand responseDemand savings
Sized for the full revenue stack.
The same site becomes a paying market participant.
07 Standards & Participation

Built to Market Rules.

The firm rating is derived from each asset's device-level physics rather than a class-average derate, so the number reflects what the site will actually deliver. It is then expressed in the market's own terms.

Market Access
Wholesale resource via your scheduling coordinator, VPP or aggregator.
Verification
Per-asset firm rating from device-level physics, re-proven against revenue-grade telemetry with transparent M&V, and aligned to how each ISO accredits capacity (ELCC in PJM and SPP, MRI in NYISO, Qualified Capacity in ISO-NE, DLOL in MISO, Slice-of-Day Resource Adequacy in CAISO) and tests deliverability.
Integration & Security
Runs over the protocols sites already use (OpenADR, IEEE 2030.5, OCPP, Modbus, OPC UA). Vendor-neutral, with role-based control and audit logging on every dispatch.
Programs
Capacity, energy and ancillary services where the ISO runs them, plus demand response and demand-charge savings. In energy-only markets like ERCOT, the same rating targets energy and ancillary instead of capacity.
08 Why ChargeCatalyst

Designed for Confident Commitments.

Firm before you bid
We stress-test the number before it's offered, not after, so your bid reflects what the assets can realistically hold.
Tuned to your assets
Decisions calibrated to each asset's device-level physics: its limits, efficiency and how it degrades over time.
Works with what you have
Vendor-agnostic across your equipment and market, running over your existing controls, with your own or a partner's market access.
One model, plan to delivery
The same model that plans the project keeps proving it as the assets run, so the plan and the delivered result stay aligned.
09 Team

Team

Ashray Manur, PhD, CEO & Co-Founder
CEO & Co-Founder
Ashray Manur, PhD
PhD Electrical Engineering, UW-Madison. Launched multiple products at Enphase Energy. Expertise in microgrid management and EV charging. Co-founder, Pivot Charging.
Sam Jammal, President & Co-Founder
President & Co-Founder
Sam Jammal
JD, George Washington University Law School. Clean energy executive (startups + gov't). Regulatory and development expertise. Co-founder, Pivot Charging.

Turn latent capacity into firm power.

If you own behind-the-meter assets, develop projects, or aggregate capacity into the wholesale market, we'd like to talk.