Snowmaking is essential—but it’s also the biggest energy load on the mountain.

You’re operating during narrow temperature windows, running pumps and compressors at full load, and stacking usage into a few critical weeks. That’s exactly when the grid is stressed and electricity is expensive. The result? Spiked demand charges and volatile power bills that eat into margins before the season even starts.

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What’s Actually Driving the Cost

Most ski areas pay two types of electric charges:

• Energy use (kWh): How much you consume
• Demand charges (kW): The single highest 15-minute interval of use during the billing period

Even if you only hit that peak once, you pay for it all month—and sometimes all season.

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How Batteries Help

Battery storage doesn’t change how or when you make snow. It just sits behind the meter and does three things:

• Charges off the grid when demand is low and power is cheap
• Discharges when snowmaking pushes your usage toward a peak
• Flattens your load profile, so your demand charge stays lower

If your utility or ISO offers market participation, the battery will respond to grid signals and earn revenue to afford the assets for you.

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Why It Works for Ski Areas

• You already have the load (snowmaking, pumps, lifts, lodges).
• You already have the urgency (tight windows).
• You already face the penalty (peak charges or diesel).
• You can be a huge grid asset as dispatchable load to the utility

Batteries just give you control—without changing operations.

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Our Focus

At CutPeak Energy, we develop and model battery storage systems built for ski areas. We work with:

• Control software and dispatch firms
• Battery OEMs and installers
• Engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) firms
• Project financiers and rural energy specialists

We also act as owner’s representatives for resorts looking to invest in and manage their own systems.

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If you’re reviewing last season’s utility bills and thinking, “There’s got to be a better way”—there is.

Let’s run a load profile and see what a battery would’ve done.
📧 b.david@cutpeakenergy.com

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CutPeak Energy