Your operating and energy picture.
Controller inventory, available equipment data, utility interval data and the applicable tariff. Your energy team provides the utility data and billing context.
For energy managers
Supermarket refrigeration energy management: find the energy hiding in your racks.
Refrigeration is often the largest electrical load in a supermarket. Kalder brings in your electricity meters over Modbus or BACnet, shows where setpoints have drifted and equipment is working harder than it should, and which stores can take part in demand response.
Questions worth answering first.
Setpoint drift, repeat defrost problems and struggling compressors all cost energy. Find them store by store and measure the change.
Which stores and meters are in scope?
How will weather, trading hours and equipment changes be accounted for?
What happens to consumption during recovery after a demand event?
What to measure.
Record the baseline before you start, so the results mean something.
Electricity use against an agreed baseline
Peak demand and event recovery
Setpoint deviations found and corrected
Where to start.
A written scope before you commit.
Turn the initial conversation into a shared evaluation brief. Confirm these items before activating a pilot.
Know who does what.
Define participating stores, access permissions, operating limits, exclusions and overrides. For monitoring, document who receives the alarm, who assesses it and who contacts the service contractor.
Assess the full event.
Review demand during the event, consumption before and after, operational exceptions and an agreed financial calculation. Measurement is a joint evaluation, not an automatic savings guarantee.
Further reading.
See your stores the way our alarm desk does.
A 30-minute walkthrough with someone who knows refrigeration. Bring your store list and controller types; we’ll tell you what connects and where we’d start.