GridTherm helps data center and facility operators turn recovered thermal energy into a structured commercial product by managing metering inputs, delivery conditions, contracts, allocations, settlement, invoicing, and reporting.
What It Is
GridTherm is designed for facilities that generate usable heat and want to treat that heat as a managed, saleable output. Rather than relying on ad hoc spreadsheets, manual invoice calculations, or isolated BMS data, GridTherm provides a structured system of record for thermal delivery relationships.
It enables operators to register heat-producing sites, define thermal sources, connect those sources to buyer-facing delivery points, ingest interval data from heat meters, apply contract terms and conditional settlement logic, reconcile delivered energy across shared loops or headers, generate settlement statements and invoices, and maintain a reviewable audit trail of how every billable quantity was derived.
GridTherm supports both simple and complex arrangements. A single site might have one direct buyer with a straightforward delivered-energy price. Another site might route recovered heat through a shared loop and sell different portions to a greenhouse, a warehouse, and a municipal snowmelt system under distinct temperature, schedule, and availability requirements.
Why It Matters
Many facilities already generate heat that has practical downstream value. The challenge is not recognizing that value — the challenge is commercializing it. Buyers need clear delivery conditions. Operators need a defensible basis for billing. Finance teams need settlement logic they can explain. Operations teams need visibility into what was delivered, when it qualified, and why it did or did not become billable.
GridTherm closes that gap by turning thermal transfers into an operational and financial workflow rather than a one-off technical exercise.
Key Capabilities
Site and Source Management
Register heat-producing facilities and define thermal sources, recovery capacities, and loop configurations.
Buyer and Offtaker Management
Maintain buyer profiles, contact information, billing preferences, and relationship history.
Delivery Point Modeling
Define buyer-facing delivery boundaries with quality thresholds, schedule logic, and settlement modes.
Meter and Telemetry Ingestion
Ingest interval data from heat meters via BACnet, Modbus, SCADA, vendor APIs, or manual import.
Agreement Templates
Create reusable agreement structures for delivered energy, capacity reservation, take-or-pay, availability, and reporting-only contracts.
Settlement Rules Engine
Apply contract terms, qualification logic, and billing calculations to produce defensible settlement statements.
Quality Threshold Enforcement
Evaluate supply temperature, return temperature, delta-T, flow rate, and other conditions at interval granularity.
Event-Based Delivery Activation
Trigger billable delivery windows based on weather events, manual dispatch, or schedule conditions.
Weather-Linked Qualification Logic
Integrate forecast data to activate or deactivate delivery eligibility based on temperature and weather thresholds.
Allocation and Reconciliation
Reconcile shared-loop or partial-metering settlements using master meter totals, branch readings, and allocation rules.
Settlement Statements
Generate detailed settlement documents showing raw delivery, qualifying delivery, adjustments, and calculated charges.
Invoicing and AR Export
Produce invoices from approved settlements with line items, tax placeholders, and export to external billing systems.
Portfolio Dashboards
View aggregated metrics across all sites, buyers, and agreements in a single operational view.
Audit History
Maintain a structured log of all configuration changes, settlement approvals, manual adjustments, and invoice actions.
How It Ties Into the Ecosystem
GridTherm extends the GridWare ecosystem into thermal commerce. It can leverage GridIntegrate for meter data ingestion, GridPolicy for automated settlement approval workflows, and GridTwin for thermal system visualization. GridServ can coordinate maintenance on thermal delivery infrastructure, while GridBiz and GridRelate support the buyer relationship and commercial management layers.
Example Workflows
- A 1 MW edge data center delivers recovered heat into a municipal snowmelt loop. Delivery qualifies only when outside air temperature falls below configured thresholds and event criteria are met.
- A larger facility supplies low-grade heat to a nearby industrial user for process-water preheating during active production hours and approved preheat windows.
- A greenhouse operator contracts for reserved thermal capacity during colder months and variable energy delivery when nighttime temperatures drop below seasonal targets.
- A campus operator routes recovered heat through a shared loop serving multiple tenants, with some directly metered and others settled using contractual allocation logic.
- An operator uses GridTherm in reporting-only mode to prove delivery, validate performance, and prepare settlement worksheets for external billing systems.
Intended Users
Launch Scope & Roadmap
First
- Site and source registration
- Buyer and agreement management
- Meter ingestion and interval tracking
- Settlement rules engine
- Quality threshold enforcement
Next
- Weather-linked qualification
- Allocation and reconciliation
- Invoice generation
- Portfolio dashboards
- Audit trail
Later
- Scenario preview / what-if testing
- Multi-site rollups
- External settlement export
- Advanced allocation models