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Is a microgrid worth evaluating for your facility?

Estimate capital cost, annual value, investment returns and outage resilience using transparent, editable assumptions.
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Quick assessmentEditable assumptions

Live · service specifications and heat-pump checks

LIVE · PLANNING

Storage service specification builder

Generate a specification draft and data requests from service, demand, response, reserve, recovery and site conditions. Unknowns stay unknown; no technology is selected or scored.

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LIVE · PLANNING

Heat-pump source and price threshold checker

Check source heat, temperature, output, timing and import headroom before using an energy-price threshold. Separate compressor, auxiliary and thermal-loss boundaries and preserve failed gates.

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Live · engineering calculation worksheets

LIVE · SCREENING

Pumped-hydro duty and recharge screen

Check net energy, generating power, interface limits and full-volume recharge against head, usable water and machine conditions.

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LIVE · SCREENING

Heat-duty and steam balance worksheet

Calculate stream heat rate, useful period energy and target quantity from flow and either temperature/cp or verified enthalpy states. Preserve the direction of heat transfer.

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Storage and heat–power tools

Storage procurement and warranty duty

Understand how batteries, pumped hydro, air, flywheels, capacitors, thermal and hydrogen storage work. Compare service boundaries, site constraints and lifecycle evidence before choosing an architecture.

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Process heat and thermal storage

Connect electricity decisions to the temperature, timing and reliability of a useful heat service. Compare direct electric heating, heat pumps and electrically charged thermal storage on one process boundary.

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Project data and decision apps

Start with your own data and quotations. Each app explains inputs, plots results and offers downloadable reports and an enquiry summary. Prefilled values are fictional examples.

Project data health check

Read a CSV locally, plot accepted data and identify missing intervals, duplicate timestamps, invalid values and the evidence needed before analysis.

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Data centre supply option comparison

Compare one common supply duty across grid, BESS and generator options. Check constraints before ordering user-entered lifecycle costs.

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VPP offers & owner net value

Compare aggregator offers on one asset, deduct fees and foregone site value, and expose physical, contractual and participation evidence gaps.

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Project delivery and settlement review tools

Turn milestones, participation requirements and settlement evidence into checkable records. Each tool supports local drafts, report exports and enquiry summaries.

Time-to-power milestone tracker

Track baseline, forecast and actual dates, dependencies, owners and evidence. Review delays and save a local change history.

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VPP participation evidence matrix

Define one jurisdiction, programme and service. Trace each requirement to dated evidence and identify gaps before specialist review.

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Dispatch and settlement sensitivity

Import interval CSV and reconcile requested versus measured reduction, contractual receipts, costs and a transparent downside scenario.

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Data centre and VPP screening tools

Choose the tool that matches your current decision. Each explains its inputs, formulas and limits, and lets you download results or take them into a project enquiry.

Power gap & phased capacity

Calculate facility demand and grid headroom by phase to identify when the supply plan needs to change.

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BESS bridge & recharge

Check whether a battery can cover the shortfall and whether enough power and time remain to recharge it.

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VPP headroom & commitment conflicts

Check baseline dispatch and added response together against equipment, energy and PCC export limits.

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YOUR OPERATING RHYTHM

See the work your role must close

Choose a project participant to see its recurring controls, accountable function and review rhythm. A registered account turns the template into a live evidence and action record.

Project participant
7role KPIs

Developer

Keep development gates, programme, approvals and cost exposure ready for the next investment decision.

4
weekly checks
3
Monthly
1
monthly close

KPI, frequency and accountable function

Template preview — live values and named assignees appear after project setup
Stage-gate readinessAccountable function: Development Director
Monthly
Schedule & target CODAccountable function: Project Manager
Weekly
Site & land rightsAccountable function: Legal / Land
Monthly
Permits & licencesAccountable function: Permitting Lead
Weekly
InterconnectionAccountable function: Grid Manager
Weekly
CAPEX & development budgetAccountable function: Commercial / Cost
Monthly
Priority-risk closureAccountable function: Project Director
Weekly

Four-week control rhythm

W1Update data
W2Check variance
W3Close evidence
W4Approve & record

Start with a defined checklist, not a blank workspace

FREE PUBLIC BETA

Save, compare and trace each screening decision

Registered users can keep project snapshots, record why assumptions changed and export decision records free during the TOOL 2.0 public beta.

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TOOL 2.0

Project overview

Select a project, review its latest status or create a new decision record.