EFFICIENT ENERGY DELIVERY

Shifting and shaping load are essential strategies for controlling costs and ensuring system reliability during critical peak demand. GridPoint’s load management software improves the level of utility control, automating demand response and enabling location-specific reduction events. Benefits include:

Reduced Peak Power Purchases – Utilities are able to avoid purchasing power at peak wholesale prices by reducing system-wide load during seasonal demand spikes.

Enhanced Reliability – GridPoint’s load management application supports location-specific demand response events. Peak-period stress on substations, feeders and residential transformers can be rapidly alleviated to ensure distribution system reliability.

Expanded Load Control – Broad consumer involvement increases the scale of distributed load utilities are able to manage. Our load management software facilitates customer participation through engaging information, easy to set-and-forget profiles and device-specific management capabilities.

Improved Planning Capabilities – Sophisticated forecasting algorithms allow utilities to confidently plan for the availability of controllable load by asset class, location or likelihood of participation. Real-time verification capabilities allow load management to become a reliable part of utility resource planning, whether the goal is reduced cost, increased reliability or reduced emissions.

Increased Utilization of Load Management – GridPoint software allows load management events to be automatically created based on input from energy management and other relevant utility systems.