For Utilities & Grid Operators
Active demand response participation is essential for both power system reliability and market efficiency. Efforts to enable demand-side participation in electricity markets are providing significant benefits to utilities, transmission operators and end users alike.
Aside from the inherent value in developing sound energy management habits, these load management programs provide crucial grid stability during times of high electricity demand. At the same time, demand response creates an alternative to expensive capital investment in "part-time" peaking generation or the need to acquire costly supply-side resources during a crisis.
The ECS PowerPay! demand response program model is leading North America as a top choice in demand-side management.
With customized turn-key solutions, based on our PowerPay! program model, we account for the factors that affect your market’s individual load make-up.
We have broad experience working in various types of markets:
● Restructured markets like New York, PJM and New England, managing our own system-wide programs
through grid operators
● Partially restructured markets such as California, working via direct contracts with individual utilities and
administering separate programs for each electric territory
● Regulated markets like Kansas City, working hand-in-hand with the utility to develop and manage their
program under their own branding and provide training for their customer representatives
Participants come from a variety of industries, including all areas of the manufacturing sector, school systems, hotels, retail, healthcare facilities and various other commercial properties. Recently, we have secured contracts with a number of utilities across the country with respect to their demand response objectives. Those services range from a simple review/analysis of existing programs to, in the absence of a current workable program, collaboratively establishing a complete program(s). In many cases, we are asked to simply bring demand response resources directly to the utility, independently.
