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Peakhand
Run home-battery peak events: enroll, dispatch, meter, pay
- Score
- 46
- confidence 48
- Evidence
- 5
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 60 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2015
- Established market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Operators dispatch peak events and monitor live fleet response from a desk, while homeowners check earnings from phones. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Dispatch
Awaiting approval4.2 MW
About this appAI proposal
Peakhand helps a utility run a virtual power plant program built on home batteries. It handles enrollment and contracts, schedules dispatch events for predictable peaks, records energy sent back to the grid, and prepares monthly rebate and energy payments.
Participants get a simple app showing upcoming events, what their battery did and what they earned. Utility staff get one console for the whole fleet, so running an event becomes a review and approve step instead of manual coordination.
It suits programs that must run events within a yearly cap, such as a limited number of events of a couple of hours each, without a large operations team. Battery connections are added per manufacturer.
- Tagline
- Many home batteries, one dependable peak.
- Voice
- PlainSteadyPractical
- Why this name
- Peak is the problem utilities need to meet; hand suggests many small contributions and an easy handoff. Two plain words, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Enrollment and contracts
Participants sign up, accept program terms and link a battery. Staff see status, rebate level and contracted energy rate per home.
No member yet
Peak event calendar
Plan events for expected summer cooling and winter heating peaks, with a counter of events used against the yearly allowance.
No member yet
One-step dispatch
Review the forecast, pick the fleet or a group, and send charge or discharge commands. Automatic mode runs approved rules.
No member yet
Delivered-energy metering
Counts energy returned to the grid beyond each home's own use, per event, and flags odd readings for review.
No member yet
Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Many home batteries, one dependable peak.
PricingAI proposal
The material gives no competitor prices. It only suggests per-device, per-kWh or per-event licensing. These tiers are a starting point to test, not a market benchmark.
Pilot
$500 a month
- Up to 500 enrolled batteries
- Enrollment and participant app
- Event calendar and manual dispatch
- Monthly billing statements
Program
$2500 a month
- Up to 5,000 enrolled batteries
- Automatic dispatch rules
- Delivered-energy metering
- Payout exports and audit log
Fleet
Contact us
- Larger fleets, priced per device
- Custom hardware connections
- Priority support
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$194,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- No loop in the product. Participants use the app, but it only serves one utility's program. Growth comes from selling to utilities, with the participant app as a retention tool, not a spreading channel.
- Do they become customers?
- Homeowners cannot buy it; the utility is the customer. Test whether utilities will pay for a pilot and whether participant retention improves.
- First customers
- Small municipal or cooperative electric utilities starting a home-battery program of a few hundred homes, led by a program manager or energy services lead.
- Where to reach them
- Direct outreach: Email and call program managers at co-ops and municipal utilities that have announced battery programs.
- Industry events: Present a live dispatch demo at regional utility and co-op meetings.
- Battery installers: Ask installers working with local utilities for introductions to program staff.
- First milestone
- Two utilities sign paid pilots and run at least one real dispatch event with metered payouts.
Why people already pay for this
- Public claimA utility company offers a virtual power plant program that pays participants a monthly rebate for battery enrollment
- Public claimThe utility can dispatch batteries up to 36 times per year for a couple hours each
- Public claimUtilities use VPP dispatch events during predictable peak demand periods
- Public claimParticipants are paid at a contracted rate for power delivered back to the grid beyond their own home usage
- Public claimMonthly rebates and energy pricing make the economics of home batteries more favorable
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Device connectionsBattery maker cloud APIs or an aggregatorDispatch and metering need commands and readings from each battery brand.
- This app · Time-series storagePostgres time-series extensionInterval energy readings for every home grow quickly and need fast per-event queries.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalEach battery brand has its own control interface. Access may be limited or slow to get, which could block real dispatch in the first version.
- CommercialUtilities buy slowly and often have existing vendors or in-house systems, so a pilot may take long to close.
- RegulatoryPrograms follow local utility rules on metering, payments and customer data. Compliance needs may differ by region.
- DataHome energy readings are sensitive personal data. Breaches or misuse would be costly to trust and to contracts.
- CommercialThe material is only public claims from one forum, so demand for outside software is unproven.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.