Your cooling is your biggest cost. And the hardest to touch.
If you run cold storage, food manufacturing, or any facility with critical temperature requirements, you already know: cooling can be 60–70% of your total energy cost. It's not one of your top costs. It is the cost.
But it's also the cost nobody wants to optimize — because the risk feels too high. Adjust a compressor schedule and product temperature drifts. Shift a defrost cycle and condensation builds. Pre-cool too aggressively and energy spikes. Not aggressively enough and the next door opening pushes you out of compliance.
So nothing changes. The compressors run the same schedule they've always run. The defrost cycles happen at the same time regardless of what's in the store. The cooling strategy is “keep everything cold all the time” — which is safe, but expensive.
What changes with Wattif
Wattif understands the physics of your facility — thermal mass, insulation performance, door-opening patterns, ambient conditions, product loading schedules. It uses this understanding to optimize cooling without ever compromising temperature compliance.
Pre-cool when energy is cheap, coast when it's expensive.
Your cold store has enormous thermal mass. Wattif uses it like a battery — pulling temperatures down during off-peak hours, then coasting through peak periods. Product stays within limits. Demand charges drop.
Coordinate compressors as one system, not individual units.
Instead of every compressor following its own schedule, Wattif orchestrates them together — staging, sequencing, and load-balancing to minimize total energy while maintaining temperature across every zone.
Move defrost cycles off-peak.
Defrost is a significant load that can be shifted without any impact on product. Wattif schedules defrosts during the cheapest tariff windows and ensures they complete before the next loading event.
Temperature compliance is the constraint, not an afterthought.
Every optimization decision Wattif makes is bounded by your temperature limits. It doesn't optimize and hope temperature holds. It guarantees temperature holds and optimizes within that guarantee.
The way this works in practice: the Optimization Engineer takes your temperature limits, your tariff structure, and your operational constraints and turns them into a dispatch schedule that respects all of them simultaneously. It doesn't trade off safety for savings. It finds the savings that exist within the safety envelope.
The numbers
For a cold storage facility spending $40,000–$60,000 per month on energy, a 15–20% reduction is $72,000–$144,000 per year. With zero risk to product safety and zero changes to your operations.
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We'll show you what your cooling schedule is actually costing.
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