ergOS Studio/ the operating layer
Same kilowatt-hours.
Different bill.
A heat pump run whenever the process asks pays the average price. Run against the block price, with a thermal store to carry the gap, it pays closer to the cheapest blocks. That difference is what an operating layer earns — and it is checkable.
The screen/ seven days, every fifteen-minute block
What the plant
actually ran on.
One week of a bottling plant on ergOS: renewables first, the battery charged from surplus and let out into the evening peak, the exchange whenever it beats the time-of-day rate, the DISCOM for the rest. Hover any block for volume and price by source; switch to time-of-day to see each tariff zone as a column whose area is the energy bought in it; pin a moment and export it.
Illustrative plant and illustrative prices — ₹4.20 open access, a three-zone time-of-day tariff, the exchange at a synthetic day-ahead price — dispatched by the same rules ergOS applies. Your screen runs on your meters and your tariff order.
What it is worth/ the arithmetic
Scheduling earns
on the spread and the peak.
Annual cost of this load
Scheduling earns on the spread and on the peak, not on the meter. If your tariff is flat and you have no on-site generation, the operating case rests on metering, demand management and the disclosure record instead — which is why ergOS is sold with esgOS rather than as a trading tool.
In short/ ergOS Studio
ergOS Studio shows what ergOS, jouleWise's operating layer, earns by scheduling movable industrial load against the fifteen-minute block price, and when it earns nothing.
The studio has two parts. The screen is a week of a bottling plant on ergOS at fifteen-minute resolution: demand, renewables, battery, exchange purchases and grid, with the time-of-day tariff zones and the price paid in each block. The calculator takes the schedulable electrical load, the share that can move in time, the flat price and the cheap-block price, the contract demand and the demand charge, and returns the energy saving, the demand saving, the effective electricity price and the total. Set the two prices equal and the energy saving goes to zero, which is a real situation the tool reports rather than hides.
What to take away
- Indian electricity markets and most industrial tariffs settle in fifteen-minute blocks, 96 a day; ergOS forecasts and dispatches on that clock.
- Default price points: ₹5.50/kWh running flat (landed green open access) and ₹4.00/kWh in the cheap blocks (solar blocks plus a thermal store); DISCOM tariff ₹8.50/kWh.
- Default scenario: 8 GWh/yr of schedulable load, 60% movable, 10 MW contract demand at ₹350/kVA/month, 8% peak shaved, giving about ₹1.06 Cr/yr, roughly 24% of the bill for that load.
- The screen's time-of-day zones are illustrative: off-peak 00–06 at ₹6.33, normal 06–18 at ₹8.44, peak 18–22 at ₹10.13, off-peak 22–24 at ₹6.33, with open access at ₹4.20 and a synthetic exchange price.
What it assumes
- The share of load that can move is a physical property of the plant — thermal storage volume and process slack — not something the software creates.
- Demand charges are billed monthly on contract demand; the demand saving is the shaved share of contract demand times the charge times twelve.
- The screen is an illustrative plant with illustrative prices dispatched by ergOS rules; a real screen runs on the site's meters and tariff order.
Questions this page answers
What is ergOS?
What does scheduling earn?
Does ergOS control the plant?
Why is ergOS sold with esgOS?
What it is telling you/ read this bit
What decides
the number.
The share of load that can move is a physical property of your plant — thermal storage volume, tank temperatures, how much slack the process tolerates. No amount of optimisation moves load that has nowhere to wait.
Energy is the visible saving; contract demand is often the larger one. Not starting everything together is worth real money every month, and it needs nothing but knowing what is about to happen.
Set the two prices equal and the energy saving goes to zero — the tool says so rather than finding a number anyway. On a flat tariff with no on-site generation, ergOS earns on metering, demand and the disclosure record instead.
Metering, forecasting and scheduling by default, with recommendations to plant operations. Direct dispatch of heat pumps and storage is enabled per site, with your team. We describe control separately from monitoring rather than blurring them.