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A new smart-grid program being launched in the UK aims to help stabilize the power grid as more renewable energy sources come online. Honeywell and power management company Stor Generation Ltd. are working with commercial and industrial users to temporarily trim their energy consumption when electricity demand threatens to overwhelm
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The energy revolution might not necessarily be televised, but it will increasingly be monitored, measured and automated to push “intelligent efficiency” up to once-unimaginable levels. For an idea of what that revolution could look like, consider a cluster of around 30 commercial and industrial buildings in an area west of
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The US is way ahead of Europe on demand response. So much so that while the two big US demand response companies, EnerNOC and Comverge, are being forced to look elsewhere for business as their home market nears saturation point, here in Europe, demand response is only just beginning to
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Canada’s Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) plans to use EnerNOC’s DemandSMART application to implement 150 megawatts (MW) of automated demand response. The program will allow participating industries to automatically reduce their electricity consumption when the grid is stressed, and earn payments for doing so. By using DemandSMART in
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NorthWestern Energy, one of the largest providers of electricity and natural gas in the Upper Midwest and Northwest US, plans to enlist the cloud-based services of Tendril for its smart grid demonstration grant program. The utility aims to use Tendril Energize and Tendril Connect to engage with customers, enable energy
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Demand response application and service provider EnerNOC has expanded its reach into the Australian and New Zealand markets with the acquisition of Energy Response Pty Ltd. Energy Response is the largest demand response provider in Australia and New Zealand. According to Boston-based EnerNOC, the acquisition will give it the ability
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LEED green building projects will now receive credit for demand response improvements that automatically shift energy consumption to off-peak times during times of high demand. The US Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED Demand Response Pilot Credit is designed to encourage increased participation in automated demand response programs. To satisfy
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Viridity has entered into a master agreement with the Defense Logistics Agency Energy (DLA Energy) to pursue load curtailment at federal and military facilities across the United States. By selling planned electric load reductions at a premium into the energy markets, Viridity Energy aims to help defense bases and federal
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As part of its focus on helping building owners reduce energy use and cost, Tridium has announced the market availability of a new OpenADR (open automated demand response) simple client driver for its Niagara AX Framework. The software driver enables communication between Niagara AX hosts and utilities, allowing independent system
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The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has established a new rule regarding compensation for demand response resources in organised wholesale energy markets. The rule requires organised wholesale energy market operators to pay demand response resources the market price for energy, known as the locational marginal price (LMP), when those resources
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The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has backed the demand response firm EnerNOC with a decision that upholds the company’s compensation policies for customers. The opinion goes against PJM, a grid operator that had complained that some demand response companies were overcounting customer load reductions. In its order,
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Energy-efficiency firm Johnson Controls and EnergyConnect Group, a provider of smart-grid demand response services and technologies, have signed a merger agreement under which Johnson Controls would acquire the outstanding shares of EnergyConnect. The transaction, which is subject to customary closing conditions, is expected to be completed by July. The acquisition