Built by engineers who've been inside the grid — and inside the buildings
Founded in 2023 in Raleigh, NC. We're a four-person team from Duke Energy grid operations, Itron load forecasting, Johnson Controls BMS commissioning, and Oracle Utilities data infrastructure — assembled specifically because this problem requires all four disciplines at once.
Demand charges are a solved problem — if you have the data pipeline to act in time
In 2022, Andrew was a grid operations analyst at Duke Energy tracking PJM emergency demand events. From the utility side, he could see commercial buildings spiking their draw at exactly the wrong moment — cloud banks rolling in and suppressing solar just as HVAC demand was ramping at noon. From the building side, operators had no visibility into what was happening on the grid in real time, and their BMS systems had no connection to ISO data feeds. The data existed. The gap was the software layer between them.
Voltpathio bridges that gap. Not with new hardware, not with a BMS rip-and-replace — with a software adapter that reads what both systems are already broadcasting and dispatches corrective actions before the peak window closes.
Built on engineering precision, not energy theater
18–34% demand charge reduction, <0.5°F comfort deviation, 200ms response latency. We publish our performance parameters, not just "significant savings."
Hard guardrails mean the system cannot violate tenant comfort constraints. Demand savings never come at the cost of HVAC performance or a facilities complaint.
No new hardware. No forklift BMS upgrades. We connect to what you already have — BACnet, Modbus, Haystack — and the integration runs in software.
Our M&V methodology follows FERC requirements. Settlement reports, dispatch logs, and curtailment proofs are audit-ready from day one.
Raleigh, NC — inside PJM territory, inside Duke Energy's service area
We're headquartered in downtown Raleigh, NC, at the convergence of the PJM-SERC interconnection boundary — the same grid seam our earliest customers operate in. North Carolina's growing solar penetration and Duke Energy's active commercial demand-response programs make the Triangle a real-world test environment for everything we build. We're not modeling theoretical grid conditions; we're monitoring the same PJM and MISO real-time feeds our platform uses for customer dispatch.
434 Fayetteville Street, Suite 2100Raleigh, NC 27601
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