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Upcoming
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September 18-21, 2005
EnerNOC to participate in the Food Marketing Institute's Energy
and Technical Services Conference in Montreal, QUE.
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October 17, 2005
EnerNOC to participate at ISO-NE's Regional Energy Forum: Connecting
Wholesale and Retail Electricity Markets in Waltham, MA.
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Staffing Update: Q3 2005 |
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Neal Isaacson will provide financial leadership as EnerNOC's new Vice President of Finance.
Read more about Neal
The EnerNOC team continues to blossom along with our ever-growing
customer base. We have recently added several project managers,
software engineers, and technical support resources to continue our
dedication to providing top-quality demand response and energy
management services.
In addition, EnerNOC is looking to expand
outside the North American continent, and has brought on a dedicated
international business development manager.
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New York Leads and Others Will Follow
Written by David Bomke, Executive Director, New York
Energy Consumers Council (NYECC)
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recognized as the global leader in commerce of all sorts. With
the unmatched energy of the people who live and work here, it is
little wonder that New York has also repeatedly demonstrated its
leadership in the commercial energy market, always staying on the
leading - but not the bleeding - edge of market evolution. New York's
capitalist spirit has fostered an environment that has favored
market-based over regulator-shaped solutions, so New York's early
commitment to deregulating electricity generation and selected
ancillary services was little surprise. The prudent leadership of
New York's Department of Public Service has, however, done much to
help insulate New Yorkers from some of the suffering experienced
with the more radical deregulation of other electricity markets.
The establishment of New York's Independent System Operator led
to the early development of a broad array of programs designed to
increase the reliability of New York's electric supply, transmission,
and distribution systems. Although the market has not yet spawned
the development of as much new generation and transmission assets
as one might hope, creative entrepreneurs have helped develop demand
response products to help control energy use when capacity constraints
drive prices skyward or threaten reliability. Ultimately, New York's and
New England's major blackout of 2003 was caused by inadequate transmission
line maintenance in Ohio rather than by any local power system inadequacies.
Even that failure has prompted the development of additional solutions
aimed at both preventing blackouts and coping with them should they occur.
New York innovations continue to ensure electricity supply levels
that are adequate to keep our elevators and subways moving and lights and
air conditioners operating-even in the face of this summer's
thermometer-breaking heat waves. New York City and New York State have
repeatedly broken new records for electricity use this summer as air
conditioning equipment worked overtime to battle the impact of consecutive
days of high heat and humidity. New York ingenuity will undoubtedly continue
to find ways to use constrained energy resources ever more creatively as
growing demand continues to threaten existing supply levels and push real
time market prices higher.
Prudent individual energy and facilities managers are already enrolled
in programs that will help them recover compensation for conservation and
curtailment efforts taken when electricity demand threatens to exceed supply.
However, these businesses are in the minority. The NYECC membership alone
represents about one-third of Con Edison's commercial load, or about 1,000
MW of peak demand. Conservatively, that would suggest that at least 10% of
that demand, or 100 MW's of demand response capacity, is still largely untapped.
Building owners and managers who have not yet developed their strategies
for responding to electricity marketplace volatility or curtailment threats
face both fiscal and physical threat to ongoing business operations.
One example of this emerging market-based leadership is EnerNOC. Its
growing presence in New York represents a significant opportunity for
energy consumers who recognize looming threats to both their bottom
lines and their incoming power lines. With more than 130 MW's of commercial
end-user demand response capacity under management, EnerNOC's market advisors
and engineers are prepared to help energy consumers craft individualized
strategic solutions that will prepare and empower them to deal with the
anticipated electricity market challenges.
Thoughtful energy consumers should also consider joining the New York
Energy Consumers Council (NYECC). The NYECC represents more energy consumption
in Con Edison's service territory than any other energy consumer advocacy
group and focuses its member services in two distinct areas - advocacy and
education. As advocates, they represent the needs of their membership at the
New York State Department of Public Service and in many other regulatory arenas.
The NYECC also provides insight through member alerts, through its quarterly
newsletter, Power Moves!, through its website, and through
quarterly seminars. NYECC's membership includes some of New York's largest real
estate owners and managers, major hospitals, universities, and financial
institutions, as well as various governmental members. The NYECC is proud to
acknowledge EnerNOC as one of its members.
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Customer
Spotlight: Hall-Brooke Hospital
Facility-Wide Effort Successful in July 27th Demand Response Event
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On July 27th, peak electrical demand in New England hit an all-time high,
just shy of 27 gigawatts. During that day, the grid operator, ISO New England, called on demand
response resources in Connecticut to provide additional capacity for the grid to help meet
soaring demand. In the end, with the help of hundreds of customers like
Hall-Brooke Hospital, ISO New England was able to keep the
lights on for its customers throughout the region.
Located in Westport, CT, Hall-Brooke Hospital is a 60,000 square foot healthcare
facility at which top-quality mental health services are provided. Reliable power
is critical to the facility's operations, and Hall-Brooke's Facilities Manager
Tim Clarke knows not to take it for granted. "We frequently experience power
fluctuations and outages here in Westport, especially when the weather is as hot
as it was last week," said Clarke. "Our participation in the demand
response program has prepared us to better face these challenges and we have
reduced the problems caused by intermittent power shortages."
When EnerNOC notified Hall-Brooke that the grid operator had activated demand
response resources to prevent potential blackouts, the entire facility put forth
a winning effort to curtail its electricity consumption of electricity. After alerting hospital
staff that they would be switching over to emergency generator power and reducing
electrical usage in non-patient areas, facilities personnel transferred load to the
generator, inspected the building, and turned off all unnecessary, non-clinical
electrical items. Hall-Brooke was able to turn off almost all indoor perimeter
lights due to clear and sunny conditions as well as reduce the amount of air
conditioning normally needed to compensate for heat generated by the lights.
Over the course of the event, staff continued its consumption vigilance by
turning items on only when required and off again when finished. The end result
was the successful reduction of load over the entire course of the demand response event.
Hall-Brooke currently is working with EnerNOC to enable additional loads for greater
demand response performance in the future. "It's exciting to know that by
proactively preventing power issues we are teaming to create a safer and more robust
community for local citizens," remarked Clarke. "Without the assistance of
businesses like ours, I believe ISO New England would have a tough time keeping
reliability up and fending off blackouts across Connecticut."
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EnerNOC's Demand Response Customers Support East Coast Grid Reliability During Stifling July Heat Wave |
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On Tuesday, July 26th, EnerNOC observed unusually
tight day-ahead demand forecasts and high energy price projections
across the Northeast and alerted its customers through its automated
demand response notification and control system that there was a heightened
probability that a demand response event would occur. On Wednesday, July 27th,
with temperatures and humidity levels soaring, that prediction proved accurate –
electric demand in both New York and New England threatened to outstrip
supply and cause a major failure of the electric grid.
Due to the severity of the situation, both regional grid operators, the
New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) and the Independent System
Operator of New England (ISO-NE), activated their emergency demand response programs.
In response, EnerNOC acted immediately to reduce load at approximately 250
commercial and industrial customer sites throughout the two regions. EnerNOC
reduced demand by 130 MW's, or the equivalent demand of approximately 130,000 households,
thereby allowing the available supply to meet demand and the grid to remain
operational throughout both regions.
Once again, demand response resources proved to be a valuable means for
regional grid operators to meet peak demand. David Brewster, EnerNOC's President
and COO, commented, "We feel very good about the role we played in maintaining
grid reliability on Wednesday. These events further demonstrated that
technology-enabled demand response is a reliable, cost-effective solution to address the
challenges of the electricity industry. EnerNOC's technology platform provided us
with the capability to quickly and remotely control assets in two regions during
two separate, but concurrent events."
Read
the entire release
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New Vice President of
Finance to be a Key Resource for EnerNOC's Growth and Expansion Goals
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The recent appointment of Neal C. Isaacson
as Vice President of Finance represents a key addition to EnerNOC's executive
team. Neal joins a leadership team at EnerNOC that has with over 100 years of combined experience
in all aspects of energy management and embedded systems technology.
Mr. Isaacson is a veteran finance professional with more than twenty
years of experience in strategic financial planning, global cash management,
and debt and equity financing. He most recently served as the Acting CFO of
Intrusic, a venture-funded security technology firm in the greater Boston
area. Earlier in his career, Mr.
Isaacson led Cignal Global Communications through impressive growth from
pre-revenue to a company with operations in seventeen countries and revenues
in excess of $63 million dollars.
EnerNOC's CEO Tim Healy remarked, "Neal's experience in providing
strategic financial direction, execution, and focus for early-stage
venture-backed companies will be instrumental to EnerNOC's success as we
enter a phase of accelerated growth and expansion."
Read
the entire release
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EnerNOC Kicks Off Energy For EducationSM Platform; First Grant Recipient Matriculates at SUNY EFS
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Energy for EducationSM(E4E) is a
program designed to elevate the awareness for demand response while
making it possible for aspiring, underserved students to attend a
four-year university. Within this program, grants for high school
graduates are created from contributions generated through demand
response program participation. Customers may choose to allocate a
portion of their program revenues toward E4E grants and EnerNOC will
match their contribution up to a specified level.
The four-year grants are awarded to eligible high school seniors
choosing to study fields such as engineering, economics, or business
at a four-year university. Without this financial support, these deserving
students would be unable to pursue the dream of a college education.
EnerNOC is proud to announce that the inaugural recipient of an E4E grant
has recently matriculated at the State University of New York's College of
Environmental and Forestry Sciences in Syracuse, NY. David-anthony Murray
(pictured at left), a graduate of the public High School for Environmental
Studies in New York City, will be the first member of his family to attend
college. David-anthony is a bright and highly-motivated individual with a
great love of the environment and intense desire to make a difference in the
world. We are excited to help him continue toward his life goals and aspirations.
Energy for EducationSM currently is available only in the New York City area,
but will expand to other geographies as the program grows. Please call Gregg
Dixon at (617) 224.9921 if you are interested in learning more about Energy for EducationSM.
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