Critical Loop offers behind-the-meter battery-plus-controls microgrids designed, deployed, and operated for industrial and critical-infrastructure customers. The offering is positioned to address situations where utility upgrades or interconnection delays affect timeline-sensitive projects and to provide on-site power and load coordination capabilities.
Key capabilities described by the vendor include:
- Accelerate bringing new electrical load online when utility upgrades/interconnections are delayed
- Maintain on-site power supply during outages or constrained service
- Reduce generator fuel consumption and related emissions by hybridizing generators with battery storage
- Provide load flexibility coordinated with utilities when contractual arrangements permit
The offering combines the following components:
- Hardware: a modular combiner cabinet that serves as microgrid backbone/switchgear and relocatable megawatt-scale battery units
- Controls/software: a controller and orchestration layer that monitors site power and manages transitions among grid, battery, and on-site generation
- Services: project development (design, permitting, utility coordination), deployment, and ongoing operations and maintenance (O&M) with remote monitoring
The vendor describes a deployment timeline that is faster than traditional utility upgrade schedules, framing the proposition as delivering capacity in a matter of weeks rather than months or years.