EventConnect: Grid Dispatched Demand Response

EventConnect offers an easy way to offset energy costs, earn revenues, and improve grid stability. You get paid for standing by to help balance the power grid during peak demand. In 2009, hundreds of customers enrolled in emergency programs across the Mid-Atlantic and PJM area committed to reduce over 7,000 MW and received more than $300 million for their combined participation. In 2010 and 2011, participation increased significantly as customers committed to reduce approximately 9,000 MW and 11,800 MW respectively with total compensation exceeding $500 million in each year.

How EventConnect Works: Under some circumstances electric grid operators or utilities may ask for help from energy users to shift or temporarily reduce a portion of the facility's consumption. This may happen when there is a pending emergency or when wholesale supply costs greatly exceed what consumers are paying for electricity. This presents a unique economic opportunity. All EventConnect programs provide significant payments just for being on standby and additional payments for energy reduced during events. Organizations will still receive a standby payment even if the grid operator or utility do not call an event.

Compound your EventConnect payment with FlexConnect voluntary curtailment year round

Use the Calculator to Estimate How Much You Can Earn

Please fill in the details below. We will send you the total potential annual payments for your organization. Estimated benefits depend on several variables including your electricity consumption, local utility and other factors specific to your situation and region.

Calculate my Potential Earnings


?
Close This Window

Utility

The utility is the company that delivers your electric power. If you are served by a third party provider, please enter the name of the company listed for “distribution” on your electric bill.

Curtailment Capability

This indicates how much electric demand you can reduce or shift to periods when wholesale electricity prices are lower.

  • Inflexible: You can only reduce or shift small amounts of electric load or can reduce or shift very infrequently. The cost of electricity is very small compared with the value of the product or service you provide. Your electric demand is relatively constant over a 24 hour period.
  • Generally Inflexible: Your electricity demand varies somewhat over a 24 hour period. Electricity costs are important, but not as important as providing reliable service or meeting production schedules.
  • Somewhat Flexible: Your electricity demand varies substantially over a 24 hour period and electricity costs are significant. With the right financial incentives, you would be willing to change production schedules or provide services in a different way when you have advanced notice and can choose when you participate.
  • Flexible: You have made investments in energy control devices that make it easy to control energy use. All you need is the right financial incentive, sufficient notice, and the ability to choose when you participate. You are very sensitive to the price of electricity and can easily change production or service delivery schedules.

Energy Rate

(cents/kilowatt-hour) Obtain a recent copy of your account bill from your utility. The generation cost is usually quoted at cents/killowatt-hour. If there is a transmission charge that is also quoted as cents/killowatt-hour, add the two together and enter here. If the transmission charge is based on maximum consumption for the period, it can be disregarded. In that case use only the generation charge

Peak Demand

(kilowatts) Your energy bill will list the maximum consumption for the period. Enter that value here. If it is quoted as megawatts, multiply by 1000 and enter here. If no maximum is quoted, find the kilowatt hour energy consumption for the month, divide by 500 and enter the value here.

Reduction Capability

Reduction capability is the amount of energy load that can be reduced on the electric grid, through reducing energy consumption, starting standby generation, or a combination of both operations.

More Fine Print

EnergyConnect designed EventConnect Demand Response so that you pay nothing if you do not participate.

Our procedures do not affect your bill with your local utility. It remains the same or is reduced. You keep this benefit, it is not part of the wholesale market agreement.

You share a portion of the new incremental revenue you receive from the wholesale markets. So, our interests are totally aligned, EnergyConnect does not make money unless you do.


"Integrating demand response into our operations at Zanker has been seamless. Participating in EventConnect is very easy. It's a win-win for the environment and our bottom line."
- Michael Gross, Operations Manager

Learn more about Zanker Road Resource Management's story

Ready to get connected?
Schedule a GridConnect Demo

ISO Locations & Services

Rollover your location on the map to find your ISO and the services available in your area. Click on the highlighted area for more information. Darker areas on the map are currently areas where demand response capabilities are not available. Contact EnergyConnect, Inc. for other services if you are located in these areas.

See list of ISO
locations and services.
Close This Window

EnergyConnect, Inc. Participating ISOs & Services Available