Effective energy management is essential for reducing costs and improving sustainability. Energy Management Systems (EMS) offer real-time data, automated controls, and predictive maintenance, enabling businesses to optimize energy use and lower costs. Learn how Promise Energy can help your business achieve energy savings and sustainability goals.

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Cold storage facilities face challenges with rising energy costs and power outages. Microgrids, integrating Solar PV, Battery Energy Storage, and CHP, offer cost savings, resilience, and even revenue through Virtual Power Plants (VPPs). Facilities can generate onsite power, reduce reliance on grid energy, and sell excess energy during peak demand, turning energy into a profit center. Learn how Promise Energy's tailored microgrid solutions can help secure your facility’s future.

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Faced with a volatile energy market, an oftentimes unreliable grid, and increasingly strict regulations on emissions, businesses have to navigate a maze of challenges. Battery energy storage is the modern replacement for (or supplement to) generators, offering the same backup reliability, with added cost savings and flicker-free power.

Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) can serve as a strategic financial mechanism for Real Estate Investment Trusts to achieve a variety of goals in tandem, offering a pathway to leverage tax credit incentives and enhance profitability, despite not directly receiving the electricity generated by these agreements.

The California South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) has introduced Rule 2305, which requires that logistics operations offset their trucking activity with a variety of clean energy, fleet electrification, and payment options.

Microgrids are proving to be major assets in achieving sustainable energy goals, while also providing immediate solutions to customer pains traditionally associated with utility reliance. Supported by financial incentives and modern technology, microgrids are an effective approach to establishing energy resiliency.

Under the IRA, CHP systems can now qualify for the ITC, which can cover up to 50% of the project cost. However, business owners will have to act now to ensure their project gets moving before 2025, and is “safe harbored” to qualify for the full ITC incentive.

The Inflation Reduction Act opened up more than $300 billion for clean energy investments, but to leverage all the money available to clean energy projects, developers will have to meet certain prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements. Plus, a new Assembly Bill in California means that if a clean energy project doesn’t meet both the prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, it doesn’t qualify for net metering. Meeting those requirements can be complicated, so it’s important to pick the right partner.

Commercial solar makes up more than 14% of all solar capacity in the United States - and it’s growing. More than half of that capacity was installed in just the past two years, and industry estimates predict commercial capacity will double again in the next three years. All this solar traffic means solar projects are taking longer and longer to get approved, permitted, and interconnected. Because of these macro forces, NOW is the best time to go solar and reap the full benefits of renewable, affordable solar energy.

A plastic manufacturer based in Oxnard, California turned to Promise Energy to help it reduce costs and improve its sustainability measures. Promise Energy designed a holistic energy solution comprising two rooftop solar arrays, a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, and two absorption chillers. These systems will work in harmony to significantly lower costs, increase efficiency, and reduce carbon emissions.

ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance, and is essentially a set of practices businesses can implement to navigate the uncertainties of today’s economy. Doing so can lessen a business’s impact on the environment, improve employee wellbeing, and cut operation costs. As an integrated energy solutions provider, we have a lot of thoughts on what the E in ESG means for businesses.

Minimizing the carbon impact of all of your business operations is a complicated and ambitious task, but is truly necessary in today’s climate and economy. By reducing their emissions to achieve Net Zero, businesses can see both economic and environmental benefits.

As the national economy decarbonizes, and emissions regulations and outright vehicle bans go into effect, logistics operations will have to electrify their fleets. Despite the upfront costs, electrification is still the smartest long-term strategy. Promise offers tailored electrification strategies to ease the transition and help companies stay competitive.

As the single largest source of carbon emissions in the United States, the transportation sector accounted for 1.7 billion metric tons of CO2 in 2021. Across the US, states and local governments are incentivizing businesses and individuals alike to either purchase or convert their internal combustion engine vehicles to electric vehicles. Plus, with gas car bans on the horizon, going electric will become a necessity as time goes on. The confluence of these forces and more mean the best time to electrify your fleet is now.

Indoor cannabis energy costs can be astronomically high, especially considering rising energy prices, demand charges, and state cannabis taxes. In fact, indoor cannabis operations can spend more than $2,500 in energy costs alone on producing a single kilogram of marijuana. Utilizing a co-generative energy system, like solar + storage, can help growers overcome these costs.