Demand Response Without Curtailment
Turn every home and business into a dispatchable, behind-the-meter energy asset — without interconnection, without export, and without changing customer behavior.
Category definition
CraftStrom is a new class of energy infrastructure: dispatchable, behind-the-meter assets that reduce grid demand by supplying load locally — without export and without curtailment. Deployable across residential single-phase and commercial three-phase environments.
The problem
Demand response is still built on curtailment
Most demand response programs create capacity by turning things off: HVAC setbacks, water heater lockouts, appliance cycling, or behavioral prompts.
That approach works — until it hits reality: people notice. Comfort drops. Routines change. Opt-outs increase. And performance becomes hard to predict at scale.
For aggregators, the result is a familiar pattern: inconsistent participation, noisy baselines, and capacity that looks good on paper but degrades under real event conditions.
Turning loads off is the constraint
Participation becomes the bottleneck
Baselines and persistence are fragile
The shift
Load reduction through local supply
There's a cleaner way to reduce grid demand: supply the load locally, in real time, behind the meter.
Instead of asking customers to tolerate discomfort or change routines, the building becomes a dispatchable energy asset that offsets grid draw at the point of consumption.
The grid sees the same result as curtailment — lower net demand — but the customer experience stays unchanged.
Same outcome, different mechanism
Behavior is removed from the control loop
Buildings become infrastructure
What CraftStrom is
A dispatchable energy asset — without export
CraftStrom is designed as energy infrastructure, not a consumer product. It creates dispatchable capacity by supplying load locally, behind the meter, in response to real-time demand.
The system is engineered to be zero export — it never sends power to the grid. That means it behaves like controllable load reduction from the grid's perspective, without triggering export-related interconnection complexity.
CraftStrom supports both single-phase residential and three-phase commercial environments, making it deployable across a wide range of building types — from homes to small and mid-size businesses.
- Behind-the-meter energy system
- Zero export (never sends power to grid)
- Real-time load matching
- Plug-and-play deployment
- No interconnection required
- Single-phase and three-phase capable
- Residential and commercial deployment
Operational definition
Dispatchable, behind-the-meter, zero-export energy assets for residential and commercial buildings.
How it works
Supply the load locally — the grid only covers the remainder
The system is simple in concept: measure the building's load continuously, then supply power locally up to the exact demand. The grid only provides what's left.
CraftStrom uses a Smart PowerMeter to monitor load in real time. The control loop responds every 0.1 seconds to match supply to demand — without exporting power. This works across single-phase residential and three-phase commercial installations.
Why this matters for aggregators
Capacity that behaves like infrastructure
CraftStrom turns residential and commercial buildings into a dispatchable, behind-the-meter supply layer — so your DR/VPP stack can deliver capacity without asking customers to do anything differently.
Where it fits
Integration points across DR, VPP, and grid services
Comparison
Traditional DR vs. CraftStrom
Turn things off
Low participation over time
Unreliable event performance
Core limitation
Capacity is conditional on comfort, attention, and compliance.
Supplies energy locally
No behavior change
Always-on dispatchability
Core advantage
Net demand reduction is delivered by controlled local supply, not customer sacrifice.
Partnership opportunity
Deploy CraftStrom as a new class of energy infrastructure
Dispatch interface, telemetry schema, performance definition, and a deployment pathway that scales. The goal is simple: add reliable megawatts without adding curtailment.
- Zero-export operating envelope
- 0.1s response loop
- Whole-building measurement (1-phase and 3-phase)
- Program fit: DR / VPP / grid services
Get started
Add Megawatts Without Adding Curtailment
CraftStrom is built for demand response aggregators, VPP operators, and grid services companies that need capacity to perform like infrastructure. If you are exploring program fit, telemetry, dispatch interfaces, or deployment pathways — let's talk.
- Program type and market (DR / VPP / grid services)
- Dispatch signal and response requirements
- Measurement, telemetry, and performance definition
- Deployment path and scaling model (residential and commercial)
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