Vireco Solutions
Orchestrating the Future of Airport Energy
Vireco is building a platform to optimize airport energy use, reduce emissions, and unlock new revenue with participation in grid services; we help manage energy smarter while Airport fleets continue to electrify.
Founders: Arvin Kilambi, Daniel Oliyarnik
The Problem
Airports are Facing an Energy Crisis
Why Now?
The Window to Lead this Sector is Open.
❌ No One Owns It Yet
Generic tools don't understand the unique needs of airports, such as flight schedules, weather, occupancy levels and more. Vireco is being designed to be the first platform tailored to the operational DNA of an airport.
⚡ Urgency Is Compounding
With energy demand rising 5× this decade, and electrification adding complexity, airports without intelligent systems face grid strain, rising costs, and lost grid revenue.
🏁 Timing Favors the First Mover
Airports adopt infrastructure on long sales cycles. The first trusted energy platform will define the category and secure long-term market leadership.
Aviation's Energy Shift Is Already Underway
Aviation is Undergoing a Transformative Shift in Energy Use — and Airports Aren’t Ready.
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2025–2027: Ground Electrification Accelerates
Airports are actively electrifying ground fleets, heating systems, shuttles, and infrastructure. EV chargers and electric ground support equipment (eGSE) are rapidly scaling across global hubs, driving baseline electricity demand up.
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2027–2029: Grid Participation Becomes Valuable
Airports begin participating in demand response, energy arbitrage, and virtual power plants (VPPs) as grid pressures increase and market liberalization expands. Regulatory frameworks and incentives are evolving to support this.
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2029–2032: Electric Aircraft Deployment
Commercial electric aircraft are expected to enter service by the end of this decade. By 2030, charging multiple aircraft during peak windows could create spikes of 10–15 MW — rivaling the total demand of an entire terminal. Without intelligent orchestration, airports risk grid overload, costly demand charges, and lost revenue opportunities.
Smart Orchestration, Real Carbon Impact
Offsets don’t shrink the energy footprint. Vireco does.
The Problem
Today, most airports still rely on static HVAC schedules, idle batteries, and reactive load management—leaving thousands of tonnes of CO₂ on the table each year.
Vireco's Solution
Vireco turns underused assets—like HVAC, BESS, and charging systems—into coordinated, intelligent infrastructure.
How it Works
Our platform reduces emissions, based on real flight schedules, occupancy, and grid carbon intensity.
We enable continuous decarbonization—not one-time upgrades.
It’s not just about using clean energy. It’s about using less energy, smarter.
Airports are turning into complex energy systems. Vireco is the intelligence layer that makes it manageable, efficient and profitable.
Why Airports Need One Brain — Not Three Tools
What most people miss — and what most vendors get wrong — is that airport energy systems are not independent. They're interdependent.
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❌Problems with Silos
  1. If HVAC is overcooling terminals, you've lost the headroom to support vehicle or aircraft charging
  1. If batteries charge at the wrong time, you burn capital instead of saving it
  1. If 15 electric aircraft charge at once, you can’t export to the grid — you’ve lost flexibility
Each of these decisions impacts the others — but most airports manage them in silos.
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✅ Vireco's Solution
  1. One system that forecasts, prioritizes, and adjusts across HVAC, batteries, EV / electric planes charging, and grid interaction
  1. One engine that thinks in tradeoffs, not isolation
  1. One interface that gives airports control over the whole system, not just pieces of it
Vireco isn’t just another tool — it’s a real-time orchestration engine that connects the dots:
⚡ Why Static Optimization Isn’t Enough
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Plateau
Most airports are pursuing basic upgrades — LEDs, HVAC tweaks, battery pilots — but these plateau within 3–5 years.
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New Demands
Electrification keeps introducing new energy demands — from EV fleets to electric aircraft — every few years.
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Obsolete
Without a continuously evolving orchestration layer like Vireco, even the best retrofits today will be obsolete tomorrow.
Airports don’t need complexity. They need coordination. That’s why they need Vireco.
Our Unfair Advantage
We Don't Just Manage / Save Energy — We Unlock Revenue Via Grid Participation and Reduce Emissions.
Airport-First Architecture
Unlike retrofitted building systems, Vireco is being built from the ground up for the complexity of aviation infrastructure, terminals, fleets, eGSE, aircraft charging, and more.
Grid-Ready
We are designing our solution to help airports earn, not just save, by enabling demand response, VPPs, and real-time grid optimization.
Flight-Aware AI Forecasting
We don't just predict based on weather. We will forecast demand using flight schedules, occupancy, and operational patterns unique to the specific airport.
End-to-End Orchestration
Vireco won't just monitor; it controls: HVAC, chillers, BESS, EV charging, and even aircraft turnaround energy windows (future product).
Built for Autonomy
The future of airport energy isn't dashboards — it's decisions made automatically, at machine speed. That's what we're building.
Market Size Overview
Airports are Becoming $145B Energy Markets — and Vireco Will Capture the Intelligence Layer.
  • Airport energy spend grows from $29.141B to $145B by 2040
  • Vireco’s $2.33B TAM (8% of today’s $29.14B airport energy market) is expected to grow 6× — surpassing $15B by 2040 and representing over 10% of the projected $145B market, as optimization, grid participation, and aircraft charging orchestration become foundational airport infrastructure.
Airport energy spend is compounding rapidly, unlocking massive new monetization layers across forecasting, optimization, and orchestration.
The Last Untapped Energy Frontier
Every Other Critical infrastructure Sector is Spoken for. Except Airports — Yet.
This is what it looks like when the right idea meets the right market at the right time.
Grid Participation: A Global Shift Underway
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🏛 Before: Centralized Market (Ontario pre-May 1st)
  • The IESO (Ontario's grid operator) was the sole market maker.
  • Generators/suppliers submitted bids only to the IESO, limiting flexibility and price competition.
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🔄 After: Decentralized Market (Ontario post-May 1st)
  • New Day-Ahead Market (DAM) → Like Markets in the EU.
  • Generators and suppliers now submit bids into a competitive market (similar to a stock exchange).
Enables fairer pricing, but with added price volatility.
Grid Participation: The Next Major Players
🌐 Global Momentum
  • EPEX SPOT (Germany, France, Netherlands)
  • Nord Pool (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark)
  • HUPX (Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania)
  • EXAA (Austria, Germany)
✈️ Airports Are Next
Airports are major energy consumers — as well as energy suppliers
Without intelligent orchestration, airports risk missed revenue, higher energy costs, and regulatory penalties.
Vireco Solutions will enable airports to forecast, optimize, and bid into grid markets — turning risk into opportunity.
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Key Shifts
Ontario, Europe, East Asia, and many U.S. states are modernizing their electricity markets.
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Timeline
Over the next 5 years, grid participation will become mandatory (To take advantage of cost efficiency) for energy suppliers — including large infrastructure users like airports.
Modeled Airport Scenarios
Energy Optimization — Terminal HVAC Efficiency at a Major Hub (e.g., Charles de Gaulle Airport)
Before Vireco:
The airport’s HVAC system operates on static schedules and cannot adapt to real-time occupancy or flight changes. As a result, entire zones are heated or cooled even when underutilized, especially during off-peak or delayed hours — driving up unnecessary energy spend.
After Vireco:
Vireco uses live flight data, weather patterns, and real-time occupancy inputs (via sensors, Wi-Fi, etc.) to optimize HVAC dynamically by zone. When a gate remains empty due to a delayed arrival, Vireco automatically pauses conditioning for that area — cutting waste without sacrificing comfort.
✅ Potential Result:
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Minimum of 15% reduction in HVAC energy use
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€3.15M–€4.35M
in annual savings (based on CDG’s €21–29M HVAC spend)
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Stronger ESG compliance and improved passenger/tenant experience
Grid Participation — Battery Optimization & Load Shifting at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS)
Before Vireco:
AMS has installed large-scale batteries to support resiliency and meet sustainability targets — but these assets mostly sit idle. Meanwhile, the airport pays high demand charges during peak energy usage, and misses out on opportunities to earn from grid participation.
After Vireco:
Vireco activates Schiphol’s batteries as flexible energy assets. It forecasts terminal loads, matches them to real-time energy pricing, and shifts controllable demand (like cooling or baggage systems) to cheaper periods. When prices spike, Vireco discharges stored energy or trades excess back to the Dutch grid.
✅ Potential Result:
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Reduction in peak demand charges
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Millions per year in avoided energy costs and market revenue
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Supports Dutch energy balancing goals and Schiphol’s 2030 net-zero target
Electric Aircraft Charging Orchestration — Load Coordination at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
Before Vireco:
As regional electric aircraft begin operations at DFW, high-power chargers are installed without a unified strategy. During peak times, multiple aircraft charge simultaneously — causing sharp demand spikes of 10–15 MW. These spikes exceed current electrical capacity, triggering urgent discussions with utilities about multimillion-dollar substation and transformer upgrades.
After Vireco:
Vireco uses real-time flight schedules, facility load data, and grid pricing signals to intelligently orchestrate aircraft and fleet EV charging. It staggers charging sessions, prioritizes aircraft by departure urgency, and shifts non-essential charging (like service vehicles) to off-peak periods — all while ensuring operational readiness.
✅ Potential Result:
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Optimized charging loads to delay large-scale electrical upgrades and reduce near-term capital strain by millions
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25–30% reduction in electric charging energy costs
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Smooth integration of electric aircraft into airport infrastructure — without overloading the grid
What Does This All Mean?
Airports are rapidly becoming some of the most important energy hubs in the world — but their systems weren’t built for this future.
Electrification, rising complexity, and the arrival of electric aircraft are creating demand surges, infrastructure strain, and massive untapped revenue. Most airports still treat these issues in silos — and that’s where it breaks.
The Challenge
Without intelligent coordination across systems, airports face:
  • Grid strain and unpredictable energy costs
  • Rising infrastructure and operational spending
  • Lost revenue from energy markets due to lack of flexibility
The Solution
With Vireco, airports gain:
  • AI-driven forecasting built specifically for aviation operations
  • Real-time optimization across all energy assets, not just HVAC
  • Intelligent orchestration of EV aircraft, fleet, batteries, and HVAC
  • New revenue streams unlocked through grid market participation
Vireco is the first platform purpose-built for airports from the ground up — the operating system for the intelligent era.
The Team
Arvin Kilambi
Aviation and Energy Transformation Strategist.
  • Discovered a multi-billion-dollar, unaddressed market opportunity by conducting direct discovery with airports, energy operators, and aviation pioneers over the past year
  • Developed the vision for Vireco by recognizing that airports needed more than emissions reductions — they needed active energy intelligence, flexibility, and monetization to survive the coming wave of electrification and electric aircraft
  • Currently completing a business degree at Toronto Metropolitan University while building Vireco Solutions
  • Prior early experience in Canadian settlements at BMO and digital strategy execution at TribalScale.
Daniel Oliyarnik
Power Systems and AI Engineering Architect.
  • Deep technical and strategic expertise spanning nuclear energy systems, utility-scale grid operations, AI forecasting, and full-stack development.
  • Designed, modeled, and simulated complex energy and grid infrastructures for critical facilities across BC Hydro ($10B 10-Year Capital Plan), Kinectrics, and TransAlta — combining engineering depth with strong operational and market understanding.
  • Leading the technical charge in building Vireco, developing aviation-specific AI models to optimize airport energy systems, enable grid participation, and orchestrate the coming wave of electrification.
  • Holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo, specializing in power systems, distributed energy resources, and emerging AI applications for infrastructure intelligence.
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