Dollar Tree unlocks major energy and emission savings with BrainBox AI

incredibly flexible; you get new equipment, it adapts. You move to a new location, it moves with you. You grow, it grows with you.” —Charles Stark, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Dollar Tree Dollar Tree is a Fortune 500 company and leading retail chain, operating more than 16,000 stores across 48 US states and five Canadian provinces. With firm commitments to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions by 50% by 2032, Dollar Tree needed a solution that allowed for flexible, scalable energy efficiency improvements while reducing energy - all without compromising its daily operations. With over 7,000 locations already connected to our Envoy EMS solution, Dollar Tree sought to retrofit an additional 600 stores with a focus on energy optimization. To achieve this, they piloted BrainBox AI’s autonomous AI HVAC Optimization solution, covering 6.6 million square feet across diverse geographic regions—from New England to California. This approach allowed Dollar Tree to assess the solution’s scalability and adaptability to varying climates while maintaining uninterrupted operations. Within just two months, 400 sites were live and operating autonomously. Each piece of HVAC equipment was precisely labeled with industry-standard nomenclature, while our algorithm library was virtually tested at every store to select the optimal configuration for maximum performance. BrainBox AI: The solution that helped Dollar Tree save 7,980,916 kWh and $1,028,159 in one year Powered by the data extracted from Dollar Tree’s BMS, combined with external data sets such as weather forecasts, BrainBox AI’s autonomous HVAC optimization solution effectively transformed energy usage patterns across Dollar Tree’s BrainBox AI-enabled stores. This resulted in reduced energy consumption, portfolio-wide visibility, and greater data-driven decision-making, reducing unnecessary technician dispatches and saving thousands per avoided trip.