Everything is behind the same number.
HVAC, refrigeration, lighting and charging all sit behind the building meter. Without load-level metering, there is no decision to make.
Smart energy rails for retail
Every load becomes a priced decision.
We meter every load in a retail store and make the call on it. Glow learns how each store actually runs, ranks the actions that matter, and executes them — approved first, autonomous later.
Store 214 · November
6 open decisions this month
$8,100
Overlapping equipment starts before openingPeak-demand pattern
$2,600Power factor under 90% on panel 2Electrical quality
$1,900Compressor 4 running 18% above baselineEquipment performance
$1,400Contracted demand 22% above actual useUtility contract
$1,100The problem
A retail store burns $340K a year on electricity and can't tell you where it goes.
One meter sits in front of HVAC, refrigeration, lighting and EV chargers. The bill arrives aggregated, while a single 15-minute demand window can set capacity charges for the month.
The data arrives after the fact.
A facilities lead sees the monthly total, not the system that created it. Aggregated data cannot tell you which equipment is eating the money.
Fifteen minutes can set the month.
Demand is measured in 15-minute intervals. The highest interval can define the capacity and distribution charges applied across the month.
How it works
Three systems start together, and those 15 minutes cost $2,600 a month.
The store draws the same kWh and opens at the same time. The change is operational: stagger the starts so they no longer land in the same 15-minute interval.
Illustrative large-store exampleSame energy. Lower peak.
Today160 kW
160 kWHVAC + refrigeration + lighting overlap
Staggered 20 minutes105 kW
105 kWstarts separated across demand windows
Meter
Measure every load separately and continuously at the store.
Learn
Model how that specific store runs — its hours, equipment and cycles.
Decide
Rank the exact action and attach a monthly dollar value to it.
Execute
Apply the decision on the load: human-approved first, unattended later.
Products
One energy layer across the store — including the load that also sells.
Glow's energy-management work covers consuming loads. EV charging is the entry point that also creates revenue, and the Roaming Hub provides the OCPI rails between driver apps and charging networks.
Meter, learn, decide, execute.
A software system for store-level energy decisions, built around the operating patterns that are invisible in the monthly bill.
- Load-level metering at the electrical panel.
- Models trained on how the individual store actually runs.
- Ranked actions with a dollar value.
- Human-approved execution first; autonomous execution later.
- Scope across HVAC, refrigeration, lighting and charging.
OCPI rails between apps and networks.
Glow's OCPI 2.2.1 hub sits between eMSPs and CPOs so charging sessions can move across networks through one integration layer.
- Credentials, locations, tokens and commands.
- Sessions, CDR routing and all-in pricing.
- Party isolation and test/live mode separation.
- Operator console and onboarding flow in the MVP product.
The opportunity
Every store runs dozens of patterns like that, and all of them shift over time.
There are many.
Power factor, contracted demand, peak-hour loads, degraded equipment and off-hours draw. The mix is different in every store.
They shift.
Weather, equipment replacement and restock windows change the answer. A decision that works today does not stay fixed forever.
They carry over.
Stores in a chain share format, equipment and tariff. What the first fifty teach the system can start working on store fifty-one from day one.
Business model
Charge per metering point. Grow the contract with every system added.
Fixed fee · every metered load
$800–$1,900
Per metering point per year, depending on store size. The deck models the EV-charging landing contract at roughly $3,800 ACV.
HVAC, refrigeration and lighting: once execution is autonomous, Glow takes a share of savings against baseline.
EV charging: on sessions routed over Glow rails. If the session goes another way, Glow does not charge.
Pricing is structured to stay under 3% of the site's energy spend and under one quarter of the savings Glow creates.
Why now
Three things moved at the same time.
Team
The people building Glow.
Neftaly RamírezCEO
13 years in strategy and go-to-market across LatAm. VC-backed founder. Leads the relationship with the e-mobility ecosystem.
Andrés VillaseñorCTO
Built the system that pulled and analyzed 84,000 utility bills and integrated controllers in 70% of the stores of Mexico's largest retail chain. Founder of Riemann Analytics, a Glow co-founder.
Paolo De FerariCOO
13 years in corporate finance for infrastructure and energy, and capital raising across LatAm.
Juan Camilo RamírezCPO
Sustainable transport advisor to the UN, the UK government and the European Commission.
GreenBeeSTRATEGIC PARTNER
Product partner. Its CEO chairs the international body behind the OCPI charging protocol.
Smart energy rails
Finding one saving is an audit. Finding all of them, every month, across a thousand stores, is a software problem.
Glow is building the measurement, decision and execution layer for that problem — with EV charging inside the same energy scope.