Scrapbook Photo 03/25/24 - 93 New Stories - REAL Environmental & Conservation Leadership In PA: http://tinyurl.com/3729bhvv
Demand-Response Programs Offer Ways Businesses Can Manage Electricity Use

PPL EnergyPlus has programs that allow commercial and industrial customers to reduce their energy costs by creatively managing energy use in ways that enable them to make money by curtailing electricity use when demand for power is high.
        “Demand-response programs provide a market-based option for businesses to ‘sell’ their ability to reduce electricity usage into the market. In this way, their electricity use becomes a business asset that can have significant value,” said Gene Alessandrini, senior vice president-Marketing for PPL EnergyPlus.
            This option is not for every business, he explained. To benefit from a demand-response option, businesses must be able and willing to cut back on electricity or run stand-by generation when power use on the grid is at high levels.
            “Industrial and commercial customers who cut their usage during times of high demand can be paid as if they were generating the same amount of power in the wholesale market,” he said. “And businesses only have to be able to curtail a minimum of 100 kilowatts to participate in the program.”
            Demand-response options have broader benefits as well. They improve overall reliability of the power grid, reduce the need for new power plant construction and help limit wholesale electricity prices by curbing the need to run more costly generating units when demand for electricity is high.
            Members of the PPL EnergyPlus retail team have the expertise to help customers consider if a demand-response program is right for them. Businesses throughout Pennsylvania where generation rate caps are about or have expired can work with PPL EnergyPlus, regardless of which utility delivers their electricity.
            The company offers three demand-response programs, each with opportunities to receive revenue, based on a business’s ability to curtail load.
            “Our programs allow our retail customers to take advantage of open, retail and wholesale markets by giving them the flexibility to respond to their own energy needs as market prices change over time,” Alessandrini said.  “Our goal is to provide our customers not only the best commodity products but also other market products, like demand response, and energy services — all with the intention to save energy costs across the board.”
            PPL EnergyPlus has partnered with Enerwise Global Technologies, a Comverge company, to provide tools and information to enable participation in demand-response programs. Businesses interested in learning more should contact a PPL EnergyPlus energy expert at 1-888-289-7693.
            For more information, visit the PPL EnergyPlus webpage.


9/13/2010

Go To Preceding Article     Go To Next Article

Return to This PA Environment Digest's Main Page