168 utilities across 23 states rely on Technical Reference Manuals to plan $10 billion in energy savings. But TRMs are stuck in PDFs — bloated, error-prone, and agonizing to collaborate on. trim.energy replaces PDFs with an environment that supports updating formulas through due process and applying them to build regulatory plans in the same environment.
Regulators and utilities pour millions into maintaining static PDF manuals and manually retyping formulas into plans. Past attempts to digitize mainly put PDF pages on web pages, providing only modest gains.
Each state's TRM is a massive PDF that takes months to update and years to get approved. Finding a single formula means searching through hundreds of pages.
Every planning cycle, consultants hand-copy TRM formulas into new documents. Each transcription introduces errors that cascade through benefit-cost analyses.
Thousands of measure permutations crammed into spreadsheets with cryptic variable names. No one can trace a formula back to its source assumptions.
Regulators and utilities spend hundreds of millions on consultants each year to maintain TRMs, produce Potential Studies, and write DSM Plans — much of it on repetitive formula work.
trim.energy can transform how utilities, regulators, and consultants collaborate on energy savings formulas.
Our patented graph database architecture enables integrating debate, update & application of formulas across measures and states — all in real-time.
Write formulas directly within trim.energy to build Potential Studies and DSM Plans without retyping. Templates included, customizable by users.
Multidimensional formula language reduces the number of formulas by 99% compared to spreadsheets. GPU-offloaded calculation engine handles vast permutations.
All variables expressed in plain English. Navigate from any formula to its dependencies for each permutation, without hunting through appendix tables. Compare formulas across measures and states.
Graph database enables browsing supporting evidence and version update history of each formula without having to cross-reference multiple tables.
Useable inside ChatGPT, Claude, and any other chatbot for AI assistance researching and writing formulas. AI converts 23 states' TRMs into the patented graph database & UI.
2 granted patents on the graph-based architecture that makes it practical to attach supporting evidence and debate to formulas and to compare them across similar measures and states.
Built with a multidimensional formula language, with GPU-accelerated calculation at scale.
Business development led by the former head of utility consulting at Guidehouse (acquired for $5B) and leading NJ firms.
See how trim.energy can save your team hundreds of hours on your next TRM update, Potential Study, or DSM Plan.