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Grid Fruit
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Company Values
Entity Description
Grid Fruit uses data to reduce energy and maintenance costs for food businesses.
Entity Name
Grid Fruit
Focus Areas
General - Organization
Entity Type
Company
Is LCRI Company?
No
Pilots/Demonstrations
Technology Areas
Technology Description
Grid Fruit uses their proprietary artificial intelligence technology with data on voltage, current, weather, customer traffic patterns and more to modulate compressor operation in commercial food services stores, to yield energy savings and time shift loads. The business model employed is shared savings with utility customers similar to an ESCO model. The company is also exploring the opportunity to become an aggregator for demand response applications. Specifically, their artificial intelligence technology provides energy efficiency and demand response incentives to commercial refrigeration. Grid Fruit claims to reduce operational and energy costs by 15% while utilizing commercial refrigeration equipment as thermal batteries for the grid.
Technology Name
CoStar