Technical services
Energy is a top-five operating cost. Most facilities still treat it like a monthly surprise.
The bill arrives, someone pays it, and nobody asks why it moved. LCI runs energy as one connected system instead: you can't reduce what you don't measure, and you can't own what you haven't reduced. Management, reduction, and generation — in that order, each one funding the next.
Three stages, one system
Each service line pays for the next one
We don't sell three separate products. We run one engagement that moves in order — because reducing spend you can't see is guesswork, and generating power before you've cut demand is expensive generation.
Stage one
Energy Management
We put metering, tariff analysis, and bill audits underneath every meter on your site so usage, demand, and rate structure are finally visible in one place — not scattered across twelve monthly PDFs. This is the baseline everything else is measured against.
Stage two
Energy Reduction
With real data in hand, we engineer load down — shifting demand off peak windows, correcting power factor, retrofitting equipment that's quietly wasting capacity. This is where most of the dollar savings live, and it's why we never start here first.
Stage three
Power Solutions
Once demand is trimmed and load is understood, on-site generation, storage, and backup sizing actually pencil out — you're not oversizing a system to cover waste. This is the stage that turns a cost center into an asset you own.
How an engagement runs
We start with the bill, not a sales pitch
The same sequence, every site, whether it's a single plant or a portfolio: read the paperwork first, then the meters, then the equipment, then the generation math.
Week 1
Bill and tariff, line by line
We pull 12–24 months of invoices and read every line: rate schedule, demand charges, power factor penalties, riders. Most facilities are on the wrong tariff for how they actually operate, and nobody catches it because nobody reads past the total due.
Weeks 2–3
Benchmark the site
Interval data, sub-metering where it's missing, and a walk of the facility against equipment nameplates. This is where we find the compressor that runs all weekend and the chiller that's fighting its own schedule.
Weeks 4–8
Engineer both sides down
Demand-side fixes (load shifting, controls, retrofits) and supply-side fixes (rate correction, contract renegotiation) run in parallel. Each recommendation comes with a payback period — no project moves forward without one.
Month 3+
Generation, if the math works
Once demand is trimmed, we size on-site generation or storage against the load that's left — not the load you started with. If ownership doesn't clear its own hurdle rate, we say so and stop there.
What's actually on the table
The waste is bigger than most facility budgets admit
Demand charges alone can run 30–50% of a commercial or industrial bill, and most of that number is set by a handful of 15-minute spikes nobody scheduled around.
Facilities we onboard without prior sub-metering typically discover 10–20% of load running on equipment that's mis-scheduled, oversized, or simply forgotten — not broken, just unmanaged.
Sites on the wrong rate schedule for their actual usage pattern routinely leave five figures a year on the table — a fix that costs nothing but attention.
How we operate
Four rules that decide what we recommend
These aren't values on a wall — they're the filter every project runs through before we bring it to you.
Mission before money
If the payback math doesn't clear, we tell you before you spend a dollar — even when the bigger, more expensive option would earn us more. We've walked away from generation projects at the benchmarking stage because the load didn't justify it. That call costs us a sale and earns us the next referral.
The golden rule
We size and price every recommendation the way we'd want it sized and priced if it were our own facility bill. That means no padded scopes and no equipment recommended because it's what we happen to carry — the spec follows your load, not our inventory.
Brilliant at the basics
Before we talk generation, we make sure the meter reads correctly, the tariff is the right one, and the equipment schedule matches how the plant actually runs. The unglamorous fundamentals are where most of the recoverable dollars live — we don't skip them to get to the interesting project.
Ownership mentality
We stay on after the project closes — monitoring the system we designed against the numbers we promised. If a retrofit underperforms, that's our problem to fix, not a line item you discover next January.
Advisor vs. vendor
Why this looks different from a typical energy vendor
Most vendors sell whatever they stock and move to the next site. We stay accountable to the numbers we wrote down.
Typical vendor
- Leads with a piece of equipment, not your bill
- Quotes off a nameplate, not measured load
- No payback commitment — just a price
- Installs and moves to the next job
- One product line, regardless of what fits
LCI as trusted advisor
- Starts with the tariff and the interval data
- Engineers demand down before sizing supply
- Every recommendation carries a payback period
- Monitors the result after handoff
- Will tell you when a project doesn't pencil
See it in a real facility
Read how these three stages played out on site
Start where every engagement starts: the bill.
Call (855) 734-4110 and we'll walk through your last twelve months of invoices before we recommend anything.