Technology Energy Management in the Orange County

Anaheim runs its own municipal electric utility, which puts it outside both Direct Access and any Community Choice Aggregation — a business two miles away in SCE territory has options that an Anaheim business does not. The load here is unusually peaked: convention center, theme park and stadium operations concentrate enormous demand into event windows, and demand charges are set by exactly those windows. Anaheim Public Utilities generally prices below neighboring SCE, which leads local operators to assume there is nothing to fix. The demand component and rate classification usually say otherwise.

Technology is not the dominant sector in this territory, where theme park and convention hospitality, sports venues, and light manufacturing carry most of the commercial load. That is an advantage worth using: a technology load is unfamiliar enough locally that it is routinely priced off generic assumptions rather than off your actual usage. A extended hours with always-on equipment profile at 200,000-800,000 kWh/month is the specific thing we take to market, and with supply fixed by Anaheim Public Utilities, the work concentrates on the demand component, the rate schedule and recovering billing errors — which on a load this size is not a rounding error.