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January 29-February 1, 2007
Rick Counihan, Senior Director of Corporate Development – Western US, will present Reforming California’s Demand Reserves Partnership at AESP’s 17th Annual National Energy Services Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas, NV.
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January 30-31, 2007
Mike Feeley, Senior Director of Utility Sales, will present The Success of Demand Response at Customer & Utility Solutions in an Era of High-Cost Energy in Phoenix, AZ.
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Finish with a Bang!
Recognizing the Best of the Best of the Best
Please join EnerNOC in congratulating our Finish with a Bang! award winners! The EnerNOC team is comprised of phenomenal individuals who invest significant time, effort, and personal pride to fulfill EnerNOC’s mission every day, but the dedication, endurance, and genius of a few deserve special recognition. The achievements of these team members stand out most among the many that drove us to new heights and industry leadership last year. To acknowledge their contributions EnerNOC continues our history of aptly named awards, from the MVP to the comedian.
EnerNOC also asks you to begin considering your nomination for the 2007 EnerNOC Demand Responder of the Year – the EnerNOC team member who best exemplifies our commitment to flawless execution, infallible integrity, and industry thought leadership.
EnerNOC MVP
Winner: Peter Yao, Senior Business Analyst
Honorable Mention: Jennifer Collins, Senior Marketing Project Manager
EnerNOC Superhero
Winner: Jake Thompson, Systems Architect
Winner: Daniel Kozikowski, Market Specialist
EnerNOC Idol
Winner: Mark Potter, Director of Operations
Honorable Mention: Norm Chicoine, New England Field Operations Manager
EnerNOC Energy
Winner: Tom Atkinson, NOC Manager
Honorable Mention: Carol Tobian, Business Development Manager
EnerNOC Green
Winner: Mathew Tuttelman, Senior Business Development Manager
Honorable Mention: Sarah Greene, Human Resources Manager
EnerNOC ROI
Winner: David Wells, Business Development Manager
Honorable Mention: Matthew Plante, Director of Business Development – PJM
EnerNOC Corporate Jester
Winner: Bob Mancini, Business Development Manager
Honorable Mention: Brendan Endicott, Energy Markets Manager
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Automating Demand Response
Written by Tom Atkinson, NOC Manager |
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In the last five years, technology to facilitate and monetize demand response execution has advanced significantly, greatly simplifying participation requirements, making demand response more accessible for many commercial, industrial, and institutional end-users, and improving its efficacy, reliability, and value. Automated email and phone notifications have replaced individual phone calls, and advanced metering allows demand response providers and markets to monitor performance, increasing customer accountability. For many participants, however, shedding load remains manually intensive. In many instances, it doesn’t have to be.
Today EnerNOC can provide demand response relief in less than ten minutes. Immediately after receiving positive confirmation of an event, our Network Operations Center (NOC) can execute a pre-defined series of actions to fully automate demand response at customer sites: curtail load, adjust HVAC set points, shut down equipment and machinery, initiate distributed generation, confirm voltage levels, and transfer load. The NOC also integrates with existing building management systems to activate complex curtailment protocols. The NOC can even combine manual and automatic load shedding where customers curtail critical systems manually while the NOC follows a specified protocol. Over 40% of EnerNOC’s customers already take advantage of our direct load control functionality, including assisted living facilities, data centers, educational institutions, government sites, hotels, industrial plants, and supermarkets. In all of these cases, strict automation protocols are agreed upon with the customer, and EnerNOC never takes action without prior customer approval.
EnerNOC’s direct load control functionality simplifies demand response participation.
The technological advancements may seem daunting, but consider a similar technological feat: direct deposit. Twenty years ago, redeeming a paycheck required an employee to make a physical deposit at his or her bank. The advent of direct deposit, however, allowed employees to connect their employers to their bank accounts and permanently eliminate weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly trips to the bank. Was there some skepticism? Sure. Did I double check my account balance to make sure the money was there? Of course. But direct deposit, the permission for an employer to directly access an employee’s bank account, has become routine and its convenience invaluable.
EnerNOC’s direct load control functionality is the demand response version of direct deposit: By remotely shedding load at a customer site, the NOC effectively eliminates the trip to the bank. But automated demand response also reduces customer reliance on appropriate training, on-site expertise, and personnel availability. It increases performance and ensures consistency, ultimately simplifying customer participation and displacing customer burdens. Automated demand response is especially beneficial for customers with limited facilities resources whose ability to meet committed capacity during all program hours is dependent on only a handful of personnel.
In Hollsopple, PA, North American Höganäs (NAH) partners with EnerNOC to participate in PJM’s Synchronized Reserves Market, an ancillary service that requires a ten minute response following notification. NAH is a steel recycling plant that produces metal powders and shuts down its electric arc furnace during an event. Upon notification from PJM, the NOC informs NAH personnel by activating an alarm signal at the plant, which alerts workers to the arc furnace shut down. Within minutes, the NOC directly shuts down the arc furnace. Following the event, the NOC releases control of the arc furnace back to NAH and disables the alarm signal, allowing NAH to resume normal operations. At any time NAH has the ability to take back control of operations if necessary. NAH takes no action during the event. None is required.
The technologies that EnerNOC has developed deepen demand response potential into previously untapped industries and open energy markets to demand response resources, as witnessed by its introduction into PJM’s Synchronized Reserves Market. The highest value demand response programs are often those with the shortest response times, and ancillary services will significantly influence future demand response markets. EnerNOC encourages our customers to take advantage of automated demand response today and maximize benefits, performance, and revenue. To learn more about the NOC’s capabilities, please contact me at tatkinson@enernoc.com or (617) 399.5065. To automate your demand response participation, please contact your account representative.
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Customer
Spotlight: SAC Capital Advisors |
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SAC Capital Advisors manages multi-billion dollar hedge funds with offices in Connecticut, New York, San Francisco, London, and Hong Kong. Considering supply constraints and grid reliability issues, SAC Capital Advisors elected to ensure its Stamford, CT facility’s operational continuity by participating in demand response.
Paul Iwanowski, Director of Facilities, applauds ISO New England’s Real Time Demand Response program. “When the grid weakens, power quality really becomes an issue, and voltage drops expose our critical systems to outages. With demand response, we get a head start on any potential issues we might have. We can’t risk losing our computer room cooling equipment or tolerate our UPS going to battery. EnerNOC allows us to avoid those types of outages or issues.”
Iwanowski recognizes the importance of energy sustainability and even practices environmental responsibility personally. After months of researching hybrid cars but no chance to test drive one, Iwanowski went for a drive with Mat Tuttelman, EnerNOC Senior Business Development Manager, in his Toyota Prius. “Driving is believing,” he says. “I was impressed with its response and speed. It’s a fantastic ride, and it’s good for the environment.” At 45 miles per gallon, Iwanowski estimates saving $350 in gas costs in the last two months. |
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New York Customers: Obtain Funding for Your Facility Upgrades |
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) recently created an incentive program to prompt energy efficiency measures in New York City and Westchester County. This funding opportunity, the Aggregated Load Reduction Program (ALRP), significantly subsidizes capital improvements—up to $475/kW—that increase energy efficiency and generate demand response capacity.
Commercial, industrial, and institutional end-use customers can request funding for any of three demand management initiatives: Permanent Reduction, Load Curtailment/Shifting, and Distributed Generation. Possible projects may include upgrading or purchasing a generator, installing an energy efficient HVAC system, or enhancing control systems to further reduce load. In each case, EnerNOC works with the customer to assess the feasibility of the initiative and prepares the application on his or her behalf to secure the available funds.
ALRP is a unique opportunity to improve facility operations at a significantly lower cost, while increasing energy efficiency, identifying additional demand response capacity, and improving grid reliability in New York City and Westchester County. There is no cost to participate, and any customer who participates in NYISO’s ICAP/SCR demand response program and can identify a 100 kW or more reduction is eligible. Participants must also pay the Systems Benefit Charge (SBC) and Monthly Adjustment Charge (MAC) on their Consolidated Edison utility bills; these charges help fund ALRP. To learn more, please contact Joshua Garcia, Energy Engineer, at jgarcia@enernoc.com or (646) 393.3014.
Read more in the complete release
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EnerNOC Earns High Honors for Demand Response from AESP, World Economic Forum, and Platts |
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EnerNOC closed 2006 with three new awards that honor its contributions to demand response: Association of Energy Services Professionals’ Outstanding Achievement in Pricing and Demand Response, World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneer 2007, and Platts’ 2006 Energy Pioneer of the Year.
The Association of Energy Services Professionals (AESP) acknowledged EnerNOC’s demand response efforts, industry impact, innovation, persistence, and successful execution with its Outstanding Achievement in Pricing and Demand Response award. Rick Counihan, Senior Director of Corporate Development, Western US, will accept the award this week at AESP’s National Energy Services Conference in Las Vegas, NV.
World Economic Forum is an international, non-partisan organization that rallies leaders around the world to address and improve global issues. A World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer demonstrates innovation, growth and sustainability, proof of concept, leadership, and potential impact that recognizes EnerNOC’s NOC as a revolutionary demand response technology. As a Technology Pioneer, CEO Tim Healy attended World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland last week.
On November 30, Platts, the world’s leading provider of energy information, held its annual black-tie Global Energy Awards Gala in New York, NY, where EnerNOC was the sole recipient of the Energy Pioneer award. The Energy Pioneer honors a visionary who achieves the impossible while positively impacting the energy industry. EnerNOC was one of nine finalists for the award; other finalists included Exelon Corporation/PECO, FPL Group, GFI Energy Ventures LLC, IBERDROLA, S.A., Jamshoro Joint Venture Limited, Triple Point Technology, Inc., Department of State Overseas Buildings Operations, and Peabody Energy.
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EnerNOC Celebrates 2006 Successes: Special Guests Doug and Darren Flutie |
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EnerNOC held its annual holiday party at the Artists for Humanity EpiCenter in South Boston, MA. The EpiCenter, an energy sustainable and LEED® certified building, is a fitting venue with endless green facets, including a photovoltaic array on the roof, insulated exterior walls to retain heat, energy efficient lighting and windows, an interior architecture that maximizes natural lighting, occupancy sensors, intelligent heating distribution, and a water storage system that utilizes rain water on-site.
Aligned with the 2006 theme, “Compete to Win,” EnerNOC organized its second annual Battle of the Bands, featuring defending champion EneROCK, Load Reduxxxion, and newcomer Third Rail. Kicking off the competition was Third Rail (Christian Hegland, Olav Hegland, Mark Foreman, Patrick Owen, Norm Chicoine, Vinay Bhatia). The stage intensified with Load Reduxxxion (Lauren Gilhooly, Sierra Gitlin, Brendan Endicott, Gregg Dixon, Dan Kozikowski, John Luoma), followed by EneROCK (Sarah Greene, David Brewster, Jonathan Grau, Sashenie Hayman, Mat Tuttelman, Alexis Malmat, Gregory Bloomfield, Dave Mirabelli, Katie Mihalko, and Ally Tuttelman). In the end, Load Reduxxxion won the crowd with its earnest renditions of Tom Petty’s “American Girl,” Bon Jovi’s “Dead or Alive,” and Jimi Hendrix’s “Fire.”
The real winner of the evening, however, was the Doug Flutie, Jr. Foundation for Autism. Following the Battle of the Bands, Load Reduxxxion and EnerNOC presented Doug Flutie with a $6,000 donation to support autism research, education, and programs. The party continued as Doug and brother Darren, also musicians, rocked with EnerNOC.
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