REopt Identifies and Prioritizes Renewable Energy System Potential Across U.S. Time Warner Cable Facilities

A REopt analysis helped identify and prioritize cost-effective solar and other renewable energy projects at more than 300 TWC facilities. Illustration by Billy Roberts, National Laboratory of the Rockies

Time Warner Cable (TWC), now Charter Communications, partnered with NLR to perform a REopt^® analysis of the technical and economic potential for solar photovoltaic (PV), wind, and ground-source heat pump systems at 696 TWC facilities.

NLR used its REopt portfolio screening methodology to identify and prioritize 306 sites where adding a renewable energy system would provide cost savings over the project life cycle. Based on the results, if all projects were implemented, TWC would save $37 million over 25 years by meeting 10.5% of its facility energy demand with renewable energy.

Following this initial portfolio analysis, NLR conducted in-depth analysis of project development opportunities at 10 sites and evaluated off-grid solutions that may enable carbon emission reduction and grid independence at select TWC facilities.