Four audiences, one control layer.
The economics differ by segment. The equipment on the wall, and the argument for putting it there, largely do not.
Buildings, retail, refrigerated and grocery load.
Demand charges are set by a handful of intervals a month. Storage and controls move those intervals. Refrigerated and grocery load is unusually well suited to it, because the thermal mass is already a battery.
This is the Year 1 pipeline.
- Demand charge reduction against the site’s own peak
- Time-of-use arbitrage where the tariff supports it
- Resilience for refrigeration and life-safety load
- Retrofit onto equipment already installed
Capacity at the edge, without the queue.
Behind-the-meter storage and controls that defer interconnection upgrades and turn an existing service into dispatchable capacity. The constraint on new load is rarely generation; it is the wire and the study queue in front of it.
- Defer or avoid a service upgrade
- Convert an existing service into dispatchable capacity
- Shape load against the interconnection limit
- Operate through upstream interruption
Rowhome and multifamily.
A hosting programme for residential blocks and multifamily buildings. Melastone installs and owns the equipment, operates it, and compensates the host for the capacity it makes available. The household’s own use is served first; the grid sees only what is left above it.
The community thesis lives here — as the reason, not the product.
- Who qualifies. Owner-occupied rowhomes and multifamily properties within a served block, with a suitable interior or rear wall and standard service.
- What is installed. Battery storage and the Melastone Controller. Melastone owns, installs, insures, monitors and maintains the equipment.
- What the host provides. Wall space, a few hours for installation, and access for routine service.
- How the host benefits. A monthly credit for hosting capacity, plus backup for the household during an outage.
- Household first. Grid dispatch only occurs above the household’s own use, and the household controls whether it participates.
- Leaving. Hosts may exit the programme; Melastone removes the equipment and restores the wall.
Credit levels, term and full conditions are set in the host agreement and are discussed directly.
Developers, project equity, infrastructure funds.
What we bring to an asset, and what it is worth at exit. An asset that speaks open protocols is worth more at exit than one locked to a proprietary stack, because the buyer can operate it with anyone.
- Origination, site control and host agreements
- Interconnection and permitting execution
- Owned control layer rather than a licensed third-party stack
- A dispatch record that survives a change of operator
What is the flexibility at your site worth?
Indicative, based on published tariffs. Not a quote. A site screen against twelve months of interval data replaces every number above.