One controller. Three kinds of site.
The same vendor-neutral core, pointed at different objectives. Pick the one that sounds like your problem.
Keep the demand charge where you put it.
For sites on demand-billed and time-of-use tariffs, the money is in the half-hour. One unplanned peak can set your chargeable demand for a year.
First focus The control core is being proven on commercial peak shaving first.
Peak shaving against a demand cap
Battery discharge planned so that grid import stays under the cap, with a margin sized for the cost of getting it wrong.
Time-of-use shifting
Charge when energy is cheap and cover peak-tariff windows from storage, using Eskom and municipal tariff calendars.
Aware of the rolling peak
Knows the highest demand already registered this billing year, and plans around it.
Shadow run before cutover
Pilot sites see a full billing month of decisions, compared against the incumbent controller, before anything is armed.
The battery is full before the lights go out.
Homes need the plan to be right about tonight, not about the last five minutes, and a system that keeps running when the Wi-Fi does not.
Planned Residential needs the edge controller and a second vendor adapter.
Load-shedding reserve
Plans charge ahead of scheduled outages instead of reacting once they start.
Controllable loads
Relay control for geysers and pumps. Moving a geyser into the solar window can make a big difference to how much battery a home actually needs.
Self-consumption first
Use your own solar before buying from the grid, and time what you do buy.
Local control
The plan runs on the controller in the house. The cloud adds forecasts and reporting.
One platform across every brand you install.
Installers and multi-site owners rarely have one inverter brand. Enertia is being built so a single fleet view covers them all.
Planned Fleet features follow the core and edge hardware milestones.
Mixed-brand fleets
One device abstraction and one optimiser, with an adapter per vendor.
Fleet dashboard & provisioning
Onboard sites, see status and compare performance across the portfolio.
Explainable decisions
Every control cycle is logged with its reasons, which gives support teams something real to work from.
Installer onboarding
Commissioning designed to work without spreadsheets.
Put a site in the pilot.
We are looking for a small number of South African sites with solar, batteries or both, where tariffs and demand charges carry real money. Pilot sites run Enertia in shadow mode first: it plans and explains, and it controls nothing until you agree to switch it on.