For California community choice aggregators
Awards go to the aggregators who can prove they will actually deliver. CDX Data provides a turnkey capability to deploy and manage distributed energy resources, so you compete for the work you can deliver, and deploy it faster than the firms bidding against you.
Turnkey deployment, integration, and administration. No engineering team required. Or book a time with Austin
Thirty minutes. You will leave with an honest read on what is dispatchable in your program today and what it would take to close the gap, whether or not you work with us.
Where the time goes
Community choice aggregators are built to buy, not to build. Headcount goes to policy, procurement, and program governance, and that is the correct design. But the device orchestration, protocol translation, and interoperability testing behind a distributed energy program still have to come from somewhere, and every week spent sourcing them is a week the program is not producing.
Engineers who understand both device-to-cloud software and distribution-side power systems are among the scarcest hires in the sector. Those roles stay open the longest, and you are competing on compensation with well-funded platform vendors.
Resource Adequacy commitments and state load-flexibility targets run on a fixed calendar. Recruiting does not. Launch slips to whenever the second interview gets scheduled, and the obligation does not move with it.
Buying management software is not the same as running a program. Someone still has to integrate a mixed device fleet, stand up enrollment, validate interconnection compliance, and get settlement data moving. Usually that someone is your team.
Unmanaged. Batteries idle, vehicles charge on arrival, thermostats hold setpoint. Your peak lands exactly when capacity costs the most, and none of it counts.
The turnkey capability
Device orchestration, real-time telemetry, cloud APIs. We deploy and operate the platform, licensed through us or alongside a vendor you have already selected.
Standardizing IEEE 2030.5, OpenADR, SunSpec, and Modbus across a mixed hardware fleet, with device-to-cloud testing and interoperability validation. This is where most programs lose their first quarter.
Converting aggregated flexibility into dispatchable capacity. We connect the platform to your scheduling coordinator and automate the data flow. The scheduling relationship stays yours.
Program design, customer enrollment, incentive administration, contractor dispatch, and the reporting your filings require, delivered as a service rather than a headcount line.
Built for you, not for the utility
The large distributed energy management systems were built to serve investor-owned utilities and grid operators, and they are priced and scoped accordingly. Community choice aggregators are smaller, leaner, and served by almost no one. That is the whole reason we are here.
| Hire and build in-house | Enterprise platform | CDX Data turnkey | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Designed for | Whatever you can staff | Utilities and grid operators | Community choice aggregators |
| Time to first dispatch | Nine to eighteen months, if the role fills | Platform in weeks, program in months | Ninety days from kickoff |
| Fixed cost carried | Two to four salaries, permanently | Enterprise licensing plus your own integrators | Scoped engagement, structured to your procurement |
| Who owns integration risk | You | You | Us |
| Program administration | A separate hire or a separate vendor | Not included | Included |
| If the program does not scale | You have staff to redeploy | You have a contract to unwind | The engagement ends |
How an engagement runs
We inventory the enrolled device population by manufacturer and protocol, map it against your commitments and program rules, and tell you plainly what is dispatchable today and what needs integration work first.
Protocol translation, cloud endpoints, and device-to-cloud conformance testing by manufacturer. Enrollment and the customer-facing dashboard stand up in parallel rather than after.
Test events, then live dispatch. You get the reporting pack, performance by event, by device class, by hour, in the format your filings and your board actually need.
Track record
The CDX Matching Engine matches clean energy procurement to the contractors positioned to win it. We know what public-agency reporting demands, how program administrators actually operate, and what a mixed contractor and device population does to a clean data model.
We are not a platform company adding a services arm. We are a delivery team that already carries a California program.
Commercial structure
Scoped integration, data pipelines, dashboards, and program administration. The structure most public procurement is built to buy.
A recurring fee that scales with capacity under management, where licensing suits you better than owning.
Compensation tied to measured performance and avoided cost, on programs with a clean baseline.
Tell us what you are trying to stand up and we will tell you plainly whether we can shorten the path.