FlexConnect: Price-based Demand Response

Unique to EnergyConnect, FlexConnect price-responsive load management is Smart Demand Response. FlexConnect allows you to augment your EventConnect ILR earnings via intelligent alerts that inform and motivate you to temporarily reduce your energy consumption when wholesale electricity rates are high.

How FlexConnect Works: You decide when the time and price is right for your facility to shift load based on pre-defined criteria related to your expected energy use, curtailment capabilities and business constraints.

Receive e-mails with the best opportunities: FlexConnect notifies you via e-mail when opportunities meet your criteria. If the opportunity looks good, click the web link embedded in the e-mail to confirm the suggested curtailment schedule or to make adjustments.

Automatically opt-in based on pre-defined price: FlexConnect also lets you to pre-define the hourly price at which you would automatically participate in DR. We notify you when hourly price forecasts meet your criteria and automatically submit your intent to participate to the grid operations center.

FlexConnect Smart Demand Response

FlexConnect demand response PJM economic program awarded to EnergyConnect

Named the award winner for "Outstanding Curtailment Service Provider Program" by the Peak Load Management Alliance (PLMA)

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.

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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 its services 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 with EnergyConnect.

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

Contact us for additional information on the participation agreement.


With FlexConnect, in as little as ten minutes a day, a commercial manufacturer is able to leverage demand response opportunities whenever and however it wants without interrupting the company's core business.

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ISO Locations & Services

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