Get Paid Through Demand Response
Have you heard of Demand Response, but aren't sure what it is? Do you want to get paid to cut your peak electricity demand just a few times per year (but maybe none at all)? Our partner EnerNOC, a national leader in Demand Response, offers a service that pays large electricity customers for providing demand response capacity. Your organization might be ideally suited to participate in this popular program.
What Is Demand Response?
Demand Response enables organizations to earn quarterly payments by agreeing to be ready to curtail electric power or switch to backup generators when the grid is under stress or electricity prices are unusually high.
When this occurs, the sponsoring utility or grid operator may initiate a demand response event by contacting you a day in advance. Customers then curtail their electrical use during a few designated hours of the day, and EnerNOC real-time meters ensure that the curtailment commitment has been met.
EnerNOC’s Demand Response offering is called DemandSMART. Participating in DemandSMART can earn you significant dollars just by agreeing to be ready to reduce your energy. Besides developing a new source of revenue, you'll benefit the environment by helping to delay or eliminate the need to build new power plants.
These organizations earn payments just by being ready to curtail electric power:
- Case Study: Genesis HealthCare earns $200,000 per year
- Case Study: Western Connecticut State University earns $100,000 per year
- Case Study: Oxford Properties Group earns $12,000 per year
Preliminary Qualifications
Participants in DemandSMART meet these initial qualifications:
- Located in a territory within a demand response program
- At least 100kW of curtailable load or 200 kW of dispatchable backup generation (500kW is ideal)
- High load factor, low energy use variability
- Organization is committed to green/sustainability goals
- In a highly energy-intensive industry
Next Steps
If you’re interested in getting paid to reduce energy through DemandSMART, simply fill out the form to the right. A representative will contact you shortly. Thank you.