Optimum Load Shaping (OLS)
Match Electrical Load to Optimized Supply
An OLS signal is data provided by an electricity provider to downstream electrical consumers to inform them of the best times to consume power. For systems that can time-shift load, this will decrease energy costs. For example, an electric vehicle (EV) charger might choose to recharge throughout the night at a time of high renewables and low overall load.
Click here for a 1-page OLS Product Descriptions and User Guide, here for a short whitepaper, here for a peer-reviewed journal article showing savings potential of $1B/year and 10-20B pounds of CO2/year in Texas, and here for our submission on DERs to the Texas PUC.
Please use our interactive site to explore OLS signals: http://olsviewer.s3-website.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
Click here for an OLS EV Charging Savings Model and here for OLS news.
ANSI Standard
Click above for the SCTE 267 OLS U.S. National Standard created by the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and the American National Standards Institute.
Open Source
Click above for the OLS Information Model, protocol bindings, and SDKs that have been open-sourced.
What is OLS?
Click above to dive deeper into how OLS works. Click here for our Technical Journal article that describes the need for OLS applications and business opportunities.