# Customized Energy Solutions

> Customized Energy Solutions combines proprietary energy software, consulting, and managed operations for generators, storage owners, utilities, and retail electricity and gas suppliers. Its work spans market participation, forecasting, bidding, billing, settlements, and renewable compliance.

- **Founded:** 1998
- **Headquarters:** Philadelphia, United States
- **Founders:** Stephen Fernands (Founder, President and CEO)
- **Products:** CES | BLUE, CES | GOLD, CES | RED, GridBOOST, CoMETS
- **Notable:** CES reported over 900,000 active retail accounts and more than 3 million monthly EDI transactions in July 2023., Current company materials report more than 30,000 MW of conventional and renewable assets managed., Acquired demand-response company Powerit Solutions in January 2016, according to contemporaneous reporting.

## Products & services

- **CES | BLUE** — Hosted retail energy platform for customer enrollment, EDI, billing, analytics, and API integrations; includes AVA support assistant.
- **CES | GOLD** — Wholesale operations services and technology covering 24-hour dispatch, scheduling, telemetry, ancillary services, and settlement verification.
- **CES | RED** — Renewable energy certificate portfolio management, renewable portfolio standard obligations, green programs, and audit reporting.
- **GridBOOST** — Optimization and bidding platform for storage, hybrid assets, and distributed energy resources; incorporates market forecasts and asset constraints.
- **CoMETS** — Energy-project modeling, revenue-stack analysis, dispatch simulation, degradation modeling, and financial outputs; self-service forecasts cover PJM, ERCOT, and CAISO.
- **Market IQ** — Market rule monitoring, regulatory analysis, policy alerts, and client briefings.
- **Energy consulting and asset management** — Technical and economic due diligence, project and contract advice, generation operations, congestion analysis, and demand-side energy management.

## Achievements

- CES reported over 900,000 active retail accounts and more than 3 million monthly EDI transactions in July 2023.
- Current company materials report more than 30,000 MW of conventional and renewable assets managed.
- Acquired demand-response company Powerit Solutions in January 2016, according to contemporaneous reporting.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Published “The Billing Gap Is Real: Which Side of It Are You On?” on September 2, discussing configuration-based retail billing and operational risk.
- **2026-09** — Published analysis of lithium price risk and India’s battery supply chain on September 21.
- **2026-08** — Published “Navigating CAISO’s New Market Landscape with CoMETS” on August 11.
- **2025-11** — Company announcement dates AVA’s CES|BLUE launch to November 4, 2025; first-month metrics are company-reported, not independently verified.

## Links

- Website: https://ces-ltd.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/customized-energy-solutions/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CustomizedES
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@customizedenergysolutionsltd
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/customized_energy_solutions/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/customizedenergysolutions

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Last updated: 2026-10-01