
W ISE I NFORMATION S OLUTION FOR E NERGY

Carina's WISE™ solution provides demand flexibility to generators, distributors, and customers by making water heaters of any size grid-interactive while maintaining zero customer discomfort.
By combining insights gleaned from years of data, real-time control applications, and sophisticated M&V analytics, Carina can streamline grid operations to conserve and manage energy intelligently.
Daily water heater usage
Typical for two working adults

Performance metrics
Two flexible control periods per day
- 100% shift out of peak hour
- 92% shift out of TOU (8-10 hours)
- 2.5 kWh shift in the summer
- 3.5 kWh shift in the winter
- Valley fill - 4.5kW, 29-45 minutes
WISE™ benefits
Customer benefits
- Green and helps meet energy efficiency mandates for generator and distributor
- Reduces CO2 emissions daily
- Reduction in energy usage due to elimination of several maintenance events
- Zero Discomfort – No inconvenience or behavioral changes necessary
- Automatically shifts water heater energy load outside of TOU – Saves money daily
- Helps keep rates down for generator and for distributor
- Available incentives for participating in multiple programs
- Reductions in replacement water heaters with some free programs
- Proactive notification of water heater maintenance problems
WISE™ benefits
Distributor benefits
- Green and helps meet energy efficiency mandates
- Helps manage monthly demand charge by shifting load out of peak hour (98%)
- Shifts water heater load outside of time of use (TOU) billing period (94%)
- Minimal margin loss from energy sales
- Increases participation and retention rates with “Zero Discomfort” feature
- Mitigation of artificial rebound through intelligent feathering
- Can receive incentives from the generator for frequency regulation, store, and valley fill
- It is a viable carbon reduction strategy and reduces carbon emissions daily
- Shift twice per day to ensure peak is captured in spring and fall
WISE™ benefits
Generator benefits
- Power generator: Benefits EE, DR, FR, and generation planning
- Green and helps meet energy efficiency and carbon reduction mandates
- Reduces peak demand – flattens daily load shape every day
- Store ability allows efficient and economic utilization of generation assets – avoids plant turndowns by providing valley fill opportunity
- Utilizes real time frequency regulation to help manage changes in the grid due to new solar and wind generation
- Generation avoidance – virtual power plant – meets 10-year capacity planning
- Avoids artificial rebound with intelligent feathering
- Defers capital investments in new or expanded generation facilities
- Large volumes of aggregated WISE™ units can relieve overloaded circuits and reduce line losses