CogenS™ — Microgrid Module
Microgrid DER Optimization & Resilience
Co-optimize on-site gas generation -- fuel cells, reciprocating (RICE) engines, and gas turbines -- with solar and battery storage on one grid-connected site. Behind-the-meter power for data centers and AI, everyday bill savings, and islanding resilience -- in one lifecycle business case.
Why CogenS™
A Microgrid Is Only as Good as Its Dispatch.
Putting a gas genset, solar, and storage on one site is the easy part. The value comes from how they are co-dispatched against the tariff every hour -- and from how much resilience they buy when the grid goes down. Sizing each asset in isolation leaves money and reliability on the table.
CogenS™ co-optimizes the whole DER plant with economic dispatch against your real rates, then quantifies resilience -- critical-load coverage and the cost of unserved energy -- so the everyday savings and the outage value land in one defensible business case.
Capabilities
Co-Optimized DERs, Quantified Resilience
Optimize the whole plant against the tariff, the load, and the risk of outage.
Multi-DER Co-Optimization
Co-dispatch on-site gas generation (fuel cells, reciprocating engines, gas turbines), solar PV, and battery storage as one system -- mix multiple units of different sizes in any combination (FC + RICE, or Gas Turbine + RICE + BESS) and size each for its best combined value.
Grid Services & Bill Savings
Peak shaving, demand-charge management, time-of-use arbitrage, and self-consumption -- solved with economic dispatch against your actual rate structure and metering policy for the full year.
Resilience & Islanding
Size the microgrid for grid outages -- model critical-load coverage, outage duration, and the cost of unserved energy with an islanding disconnect, so resilience value is quantified alongside everyday savings.
Full Financial Analysis
NPV, IRR, payback, and TCO with pre-loaded CAPEX/O&M, incentives, and depreciation across every asset. Building-owner and Energy-as-a-Service provider perspectives, in 75+ currencies.
How It Works
The CogenS™ Microgrid Workflow
A guided workflow from site load to co-optimized dispatch and a full report
Site Information
Location & load profile
Utility & DER Rates
Tariffs, metering & export
DER Specification
Genset, solar, storage
Financials
Costs, incentives & EaaS
Run & Results
Dispatch & resilience
Add a grid-outage scenario for resilience analysis; the dispatch respects interconnection import and export limits.
Signature Features
Everything You Need for Microgrid Feasibility
Technoeconomic Engine
Complete lifecycle cost analysis for the combined DER plant over study periods up to 50 years, building-owner and EaaS provider perspectives.
Multi-DER Equipment Models
Fuel cells, reciprocating (RICE) engines, and gas turbines -- multiple units of different sizes -- plus solar PV and battery storage, from real manufacturer data with performance curves and cost defaults.
Economic Dispatch (LP / MILP)
An optimization engine co-schedules generation, storage, and grid exchange to minimize energy cost against your tariff -- demand charges, time-of-use, and export included.
Resilience & Outage
Define grid outages and a critical-load fraction; size generation and storage to ride through, and price the cost of unserved energy against backup investment.
Advanced Metering
Model export and net-metering value under NEM 2.0, Net Billing, or Buy-All-Sell-All, with grid import and monthly export limits respected by the dispatch.
Professional Reports
Detailed reports with dispatch stacks, resilience analysis, cash-flow charts, and multi-scenario comparison for stakeholder and lender presentations.
Value Stacking
Savings Every Day, Resilience When It Counts
CogenS™ quantifies the microgrid's stacked value -- and lets you model it from the owner's or a provider's perspective.
Everyday Economics
Peak shaving, demand-charge management, arbitrage, and self-consumption -- the bill savings the microgrid delivers every single day, optimized against your real tariff.
Resilience Value
The avoided cost of downtime: critical-load coverage over a defined outage, priced against the cost of unserved energy -- so backup is justified, not just bolted on.
Energy-as-a-Service
Model the microgrid from a provider's perspective too -- a service or concession structure with provider revenue, host fees, and a dual-MARR solve balancing both returns.
Built For You
Designed for Energy Professionals
For any professional planning resilient, lower-cost distributed energy systems.
Campuses & Facilities
Plan a resilient, lower-cost energy system for a campus or large facility -- co-optimizing a gas genset, solar, and storage against the tariff and outage risk.
Data Centers, AI & Critical Sites
Behind-the-meter gas generation for AI and data-center load growth, hospitals, and critical infrastructure -- with resilience, critical-load coverage, and outage ride-through alongside everyday savings.
Developers & Utilities
De-risk microgrid projects by validating DER sizing, dispatch value, interconnection limits, and total cost of ownership before capital commitments.
Energy Consultants & ESCOs
Deliver defensible microgrid feasibility studies with co-optimized dispatch, resilience economics, and Energy-as-a-Service deal structures.
Why It Matters
Solving the Hardest Parts of Microgrid Design
Valuing Resilience
Backup value is hard to monetize. CogenS™ sizes for critical-load coverage over a defined outage and prices the cost of unserved energy -- so resilience sits beside bill savings in the business case.
Coordinating Multiple DERs
A gas genset, solar, and storage interact in complex ways. CogenS™ co-optimizes their dispatch as one system so each asset is sized and operated for its best combined value.
Interconnection & Export Limits
Sites face import caps and export rules. CogenS™ schedules within grid limits and models export under NEM 2.0, Net Billing, or Buy-All-Sell-All for an accurate bill.
Ready to Design Your Microgrid?
Start with our free tool and co-optimize a gas genset, solar, and storage for everyday savings and outage resilience -- with full lifecycle cost.