Energy Solutions
One strategy across energy costs, facility load, and on-site power.
LCI brings energy management, cost reduction, and power solutions together under one strategy. We start with the issue that matters most, use the available data to understand the economics, and move viable opportunities forward.
Three areas, one strategy
The starting point depends on the facility.
Energy management, energy reduction, and on-site power affect one another, but they do not always happen in the same order. We focus first on the issues and opportunities that matter most for each facility.
Energy Management
We review utility bills, tariffs, interval data, supply contracts, and market exposure to understand what the facility is paying for, what is driving that cost, and what deserves attention. This becomes the foundation for ongoing energy management.
Energy Reduction
We identify operational and technical opportunities that can reduce cost, including demand, power factor, controls, scheduling, and equipment efficiency. Recommendations are prioritized based on economics and operational impact.
Power Solutions
We evaluate generation, CHP, storage, and other behind-the-meter options against actual load, utility rates, fuel costs, resilience needs, and operating requirements. When the economics work, we help move the project forward.
How an engagement runs
We start with the problem, then follow the data.
The path depends on the site. We begin with what brought us in, gather the information needed to understand it, quantify the economics, and determine what deserves action.
First look
Understand the cost structure
We review the relevant bills, tariffs, supply contracts, interval data, and existing project information to understand what is driving cost and where questions remain.
Facility & data
Understand the operation
We use available interval data, metering, operating schedules, equipment information, and site knowledge to connect energy cost to how the facility actually operates. Additional metering is added where it materially improves the analysis.
Analysis
Quantify the options
Utility, operational, procurement, and project opportunities are evaluated against expected cost, savings, risk, and operational impact. Not every opportunity requires a capital project.
Execution
Move viable work forward
When an opportunity makes sense, we help with procurement, utility coordination, project development, technical partners, implementation, and ongoing review as appropriate.
What can show up in the analysis
The opportunity is different at every site.
A rate or demand structure that no longer matches the way a facility operates can create avoidable cost even when total energy use is unchanged.
Load running at the wrong time, equipment fighting the operating schedule, or poor power factor can increase cost without showing up as an obvious equipment failure.
A supply contract, generation project, or capital upgrade can look attractive in isolation and still be the wrong move once the full utility and operating picture is considered.
How we operate
Four principles behind the recommendation
The analysis changes from site to site. The principles behind it do not.
Economics before equipment
We do not start with a product. We start with the facility's cost, load, constraints, and objectives, then determine whether an operational change or project is justified.
Size to the actual need
Recommendations should reflect measured or well-supported load, realistic operating conditions, and the economics that matter to the customer.
Get the fundamentals right
Bills, tariffs, contracts, metering, schedules, and existing equipment often determine whether a larger project makes sense. We check the basics before adding complexity.
Stay involved through execution
When work moves forward, we help coordinate utilities, suppliers, engineers, contractors, and technical partners and continue reviewing performance where the engagement calls for it.
Beyond procurement
Energy procurement is one part of energy management.
Procurement-only brokerage focuses on energy supply and contract pricing. LCI works across procurement, utility strategy, facility operations, and energy projects as part of an ongoing energy management relationship.
Energy broker
- Focuses primarily on energy supply and contract pricing
- Compensation is often tied to the supply transaction
- Typically works from utility usage and supplier pricing
- Scope generally ends with procurement and contract management
- Facility operations and capital projects are usually outside the engagement
LCI energy manager
- Looks across utility rates, procurement, facility load, and on-site power
- Starts with the customer’s costs, operations, and priorities
- Identifies operational and capital opportunities in addition to supply strategy
- Evaluates projects against actual facility economics
- Stays involved across procurement, utilities, projects, and ongoing energy management
Start with the energy issue already on your desk.
A utility bill, contract question, demand issue, operating problem, or project idea is enough to start. We'll help determine what information matters and what the next step should be.