{"id":229,"date":"2007-07-17T09:18:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/2007\/07\/17\/add-capacity-with-demand-response-and-energy-management\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T09:18:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T16:18:22","slug":"add-capacity-with-demand-response-and-energy-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Add capacity with demand response and energy management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we all know the things we can do individually to help conserve energy. But there is an emerging class of company that makes conservation their business, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enernoc.com\/\">EnerNOC<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enernoc.com\/\">EnerNOC<\/a> and others offer is called demand response and energy management. Effectively, this is a network of computer monitoring and control points scattered across the largest consumers of energy in a region. Based on pre-negotiated actions with participants in the network, the power levels can be reduced on demand to help take the peak loads down during periods of high-demand.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhat may not be apparent to casual readers is that peak demand in the grid happens only a few days per year. Special power plants called &#8220;peakers&#8221; are built and connected to the grid to activate when demand is projected to rise above supply in a given time period. Demand response is an alternative to this approach where the demand is intelligently monitored and managed below the supply threshold in a given time period.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhile at the REFF conference last month, Tim Healy, the CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enernoc.com\/\">EnerNOC<\/a> spoke and mentioned that with their small customer base, they have eliminated the need to build over 100MW of new power plants simply by managing demand in this way. This is a smart approach and one that is sure to catch on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we all know the things we can do individually to help conserve energy. But there is an emerging class of company that makes conservation their business, like EnerNOC. The service EnerNOC and others offer is called demand response and energy management. Effectively, this is a network of computer monitoring and control points scattered across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gI6x-3H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/energy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}