Case Studies

Agriculture Grower and Freezer - Seabrook Brothers
Plant Engineer, Wes Seabrook, works closely with EnergyConnect to make a portion of the facility’s electricity load available for curtailment when prices are right. Utilizing up-to-the-minute market intelligence streamed to the facility via the EnergyConnect platform, Seabrook can decide when to participate in demand response based on how much money can be earned by making small adjustments to his production and freezing operations.     

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Recycling and Materials Processing Facility - Zanker Road Resource Management
Zanker Road Resource Management operates two of the largest construction and demolition debris recycling operations in California. The machinary required to process over 2,500 tons of material taken in each day results in significant energy usage. This machinary also requires a high degree of maintenance. By utilizing EnergyConnect’s Share the Power demand response, they determined anytime a call came in requesting the decrease of their electricity consumption to ease the strain on the transmission grid, they could simply shut down, perform maintenance and still be making money.  

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Industrial Manufacturer - Hercules Cement
Industrial manufacturers of many different products looking to combat rising energy costs have found new ways to produce revenue from their plants. By participating in an EnergyConnect demand response program, Hercules has been able to considerably offset its rising energy costs and gain more control over volatile electricity costs. Now, using EnergyConnect’s secure, web-based platform, Hercules has access to up-to-the-minute data on the energy marketplace. Armed with this information, they are able to evaluate the plant’s production needs on a daily basis and assess how much revenue the plant can earn that day by shifting production away from peak hours and voluntarily engaging in demand response.  

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College Campus - Cabrini College
Just thirty minutes outside of Philadelphia, Cabrini College is an excellent example of what is possible and what is needed as Pennsylvania rate caps expire and electricity prices poise to escalate.   

As an active FlexConnect and EventConnect ILR participant, Cabrini is able to take advantage of year round voluntary demand response opportunities when electricity prices rise plus earn standby payments during the summer to help stabilize the grid in case of reliability threats; thereby supporting the very power source that serves them on a daily basis. Like most businesses and campuses in these trying economic times, Cabrini’s facilities department took survey of where it could save money and found demand response as a high-impact solution.

• Annual effective energy savings: 25%
• Cost reduction of over $112,000
• 125,186 pounds of CO2 saved

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University - Delaware Valley College
With demand response embraced and supported at all levels of the organization, from the office of the President to the Facilities Director and the students, Delaware Valley College has leveraged its success with FlexConnect to spur innovation and leverage operational savings rather than invested capital to fund a wide range of initiatives, enhancements and upgrades to the campus infrastructure, including:     

  • Identifying a way to save approximately $40,000 by reducing storm water infiltration into the campus’s storm drains
  • Saving $10,000 by renegotiating their natural gas contract initially and expect to save over $250,000 next year from more efficient operations

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Retail - Macy’s Department Stores
Macy’s was initially concerned demand response would not work in the retail world. They had heard demand response required an external entity remotely controlling Macy’s equipment and they must reduce air conditioning in order to participate. Macy’s could not risk releasing control or losing business due to an uncomfortable shopping environment. Since EnergyConnect’s demand response is flexible, it fit the special challenges of a consumer-based environment. EnergyConnect created a tailor-made curtailment plan to meet the retail chain’s needs: reduce energy costs, keep control of the facility, be a “green” corporate citizen and create revenue.     

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