Cultivation demand profile is unlike anything else I audit and the ratchet interaction is brutal.
Flower rooms run 12 hours on. During that window lighting load is essentially constant and enormous,
and the HVAC is fighting it the entire time. When rooms are staggered properly the facility peak is
manageable. When a room transitions and two rooms are lit simultaneously during the overlap, the peak
doubles for that period.
Client had a scheduling problem during a strain transition in July. Two rooms overlapped for about
nine days. Set a demand of 1,340 kW against a normal peak of roughly 780.
Tariff carries an 85 percent ratchet over 11 months. So a nine day scheduling error costs them
roughly 1,139 kW billed minimum for a year.
I ran it at just under 190,000 dollars in ratchet exposure.
There is no error to recover here. This is entirely an operations finding. But it is the single
largest dollar figure I have ever put in a report and none of it is a billing mistake, which is a
strange thing to hand a client.
Flower rooms run 12 hours on. During that window lighting load is essentially constant and enormous,
and the HVAC is fighting it the entire time. When rooms are staggered properly the facility peak is
manageable. When a room transitions and two rooms are lit simultaneously during the overlap, the peak
doubles for that period.
Client had a scheduling problem during a strain transition in July. Two rooms overlapped for about
nine days. Set a demand of 1,340 kW against a normal peak of roughly 780.
Tariff carries an 85 percent ratchet over 11 months. So a nine day scheduling error costs them
roughly 1,139 kW billed minimum for a year.
I ran it at just under 190,000 dollars in ratchet exposure.
There is no error to recover here. This is entirely an operations finding. But it is the single
largest dollar figure I have ever put in a report and none of it is a billing mistake, which is a
strange thing to hand a client.