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Maximum Demand Monitoring

Know before you cross contract demand.

A single 15-minute spike above your sanctioned demand can penalise the whole month's bill. Titan Class 0.5S meters compute demand exactly the way your DISCOM does, show live headroom to your contract-demand limit, and send a predictive alert before you cross it — so you defer a load in time instead of paying the excess-demand penalty.

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What Titan tracks

  • →Live demand vs contract/sanctioned demand
  • →Block & sliding-window demand (as your DISCOM bills)
  • →Predictive alert before you cross the limit
  • →Time-stamped maximum-demand log
  • →Up to 8 Time-of-Day tariff zones
  • →Per-feeder demand — see what makes the peak

The Demand Penalties You're Monitoring For

Demand drives some of the largest — and most avoidable — charges on an industrial electricity bill. Titan is built to keep you the right side of every one.

Exceeding Contract / Sanctioned Demand

Cross your contract demand and most DISCOMs charge a penalty on the excess — often around twice the normal demand rate. A single 15-minute spike above sanctioned demand can penalise the whole month's bill.

Billing-Demand Ratchet

Many tariffs set billing demand as the highest of your recorded MD or a percentage (often 75–100%) of contract demand — or a ratchet against your peak over the past year. One bad peak can inflate your bills for months.

Time-of-Day (ToD) Peak Demand

Under Time-of-Day tariffs — now mandated for large consumers — demand and energy in peak windows are charged at a premium. Peaking during the wrong hours quietly raises the bill even if your total demand is fine.

Missed Load-Factor Incentive

Several tariffs reward a high load factor (steady, well-managed demand) with a rebate. A spiky demand profile not only risks the MD penalty — it forfeits the incentive you could be earning.

What Titan Monitors

Demand computed the way your utility computes it — with the alert that arrives before the interval is recorded, not after.

Live Demand vs Contract Demand

Titan shows current demand against your sanctioned/contract demand line in real time, so you always know how much headroom is left before the penalty band.

Predictive Pre-Cross Alert

As the running demand window climbs toward your limit, Titan alerts you by app or email — in time to defer a load or start a DG — instead of finding out after the interval has already been recorded.

Block & Sliding-Window Demand

Configurable block (fixed 15/30-min) and sliding-window demand calculation to match exactly how your DISCOM computes maximum demand — so what you see is what they bill.

Time-Stamped MD Log

Every demand peak is logged with a timestamp and the load conditions around it — so you can see what caused the spike and stop it recurring.

Time-of-Day Registers

Up to eight ToD/tariff zones tracked on-device, so you can see demand and energy split by peak, off-peak and normal windows and shift load out of the expensive hours.

Per-Feeder Demand Attribution

Meter each feeder and see which loads coincide to create your peak — the key to flattening the profile and lifting load factor.

Monitor and Alert — You Decide What Gets Shed

Titan's job is to see the peak coming and warn you in time. It computes the running demand window continuously and alerts the moment you're on track to cross your contract-demand limit — the window in which an operator can still defer a non-critical load, stagger a large motor start, or bring on a generator.

For automated response, Titan's alerts and Modbus/MQTT outputs feed the Energy Intelligence Platform or a PLC to shed a pre-chosen load — but the measurement and the switching stay separate, so you always control what gets shed and when.

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about maximum demand penalties, contract demand, and Time-of-Day tariffs.

Monitor demand in real time against your contract (sanctioned) demand and get an alert before the running demand window crosses it — so you can defer a non-critical load or start a generator in time. The Titan meter calculates demand exactly the way your DISCOM does (block or sliding window), shows live headroom to your contract-demand limit, and sends a predictive alert as you approach it, so a single spike doesn't penalise the whole month.
Titan's core role is real-time monitoring and predictive alerting — it tells you before you cross the limit so an operator can act. For automated action, Titan's alerts and Modbus/MQTT outputs can feed the Energy Intelligence Platform or a PLC/relay to shed a chosen load. We keep the measurement and the switching separate so you stay in control of what gets shed and when.
Contract (or sanctioned) demand is the kVA/kW you've contracted with the utility. Maximum demand is the highest actual demand recorded over a billing period, averaged over the utility's demand interval (typically 15 or 30 minutes). If your recorded maximum demand exceeds contract demand, you pay an excess-demand penalty — which is exactly what real-time demand monitoring is there to prevent.
Block demand averages consumption over fixed intervals (e.g. successive 15-minute blocks). Sliding-window demand recomputes the average continuously over the trailing interval, so it catches peaks that straddle two blocks. DISCOMs differ in which they use — Titan supports both, so the maximum demand it reports matches how you're actually billed.
Yes. Titan tracks up to eight ToD/tariff zones on-device, so you can see how much of your demand and energy falls in peak, normal and off-peak windows. Under the Time-of-Day tariffs now being rolled out for large consumers, shifting demand out of peak windows directly cuts the bill — and you can only manage what you can see.

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Never be surprised by a demand penalty again

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