01 / REPRESENT
Owner’s representation & strategy
We translate mountain priorities into an energy plan, evaluate the site and utility connection, test project economics, and coordinate technical and commercial partners on the owner’s behalf.
Energy development for ski areas
Power the mountain,
earn from the grid.
We help ski areas secure the power they need, lower energy costs, and turn underused grid capacity into year-round value.
Get in touchThe hidden asset
Built for the spike.
Idle through the trough.
Snowmaking calls for intense power during short weather windows—just 2–8% of annual hours, typically concentrated within a three-to-five-month season.
The grid connection remains in place all year. That creates an opportunity to support the mountain and put underused capacity to work when operations allow.
2–8%of annual hours spent snowmaking
3–5 monthsthe season those hours fall within
Short peaks. Year-round potential.
Hourly electricity demand · Two anonymized ski areas
Ski Area 1
- Peak demand
- 3,617.9 kW
- Average demand
- 304.0 kW
- Annual load factor
- 8.4%
Ski Area 2
- Peak demand
- 997.9 kW
- Average demand
- 60.4 kW
- Annual load factor
- 6.0%
Vertically integrated for the high ground: water, pumps, motors, compressor loads, and the infrastructure that supports human habitation.
02 / DEVELOP
Microgrid development
We coordinate prime contracting, debt, equity and grant financing, procurement, and risk mitigation. EPC, electrical construction, civil and mechanical partners deliver the project under defined scopes.
03 / OPERATE
Asset management & O&M
We manage asset performance and maintenance, partnering with energy traders and grid-services providers to operate eligible capacity through a Virtual Powder Plant.
The value stack
More power. More uses. More ways to earn.
Power availability
Plan for snowmaking expansion, power quality, and the short windows when every hour matters.
Resilience
Define the critical loads, backup duration, and controls needed to protect mountain operations and human habitation.
Energy savings
Assess demand charges, operational costs, and avoided infrastructure upgrades against real load data.
Grid revenue
Explore utility contracts, programs, and market participation when capacity is available and rules allow.
Beyond winter
A year-round rural infrastructure campus.
Ski mountains are systems of power infrastructure, water, pumps, motors and compressors. Often co-located with golf courses, water parks, event centers and other places where people gather and stay, they support year-round recreation and human habitation.
Project in development
Berkshire East
Charlemont, Massachusetts
80 MWh
Planned long-duration battery storage
CutPeak led the grant effort and assembled the team for a proposed battery-backed resilience hub at Berkshire East Mountain Resort. The project is designed to address snowmaking demand, support critical loads during outages, and earn value from the mountain’s existing electrical infrastructure when operations allow.
Massachusetts selected the project for a $4,513,200 Advancing Massachusetts Power grant, approximately half of its proposed project budget. The proposed system is planned at up to 4 MW and 80 MWh, with commercial operation targeted for 2028.
The grant award is a project milestone. Final design, ownership, financing, construction, and operating arrangements remain to be completed.
CutPeak’s pathway
Model. Finance. Secure. Operate.
01 / MODEL
Load + water
Map snowmaking, electrical capacity, critical loads, and year-round opportunities from actual site data.
02 / FINANCE
Value stack
Test savings, grid revenue, grants, ownership choices, and downside risk before committing capital.
03 / SECURE
Assets
Coordinate site rights, partners, utility engagement, engineering, procurement, permits, and construction.
04 / OPERATE
Locally
Prioritize mountain operations, monitor performance, maintain equipment, and dispatch eligible flexibility.
AI can help analyze options. People authorize decisions. Local partners execute.
Explore CutPeak
More from the mountain.
Why CutPeak exists
Meet the team and explore the operating perspective behind CutPeak.
About CutPeak ↗Ideas and project updates
Read the CutPeak archive on storage, snowmaking, and rural energy infrastructure.
Explore insights ↗Energy for Ski Operators
A practical, modular guide to bills, load, interconnection, storage, and project risk.
Read the guide ↗Start a conversation
What could your mountain earn from the power already there?
Start with your power constraints, energy costs, and plans for year-round use. We’ll identify the data needed for a first look.