RPower Solutions for Transportation Sector
RPower’s Resilience-as-a-Service (RaaS) program offers a comprehensive solution for the transportation sector, including import and export by land, air, and sea. This includes the design, installation, operation, and maintenance of high quality onsite energy microgrids.
Our RaaS program ensures resilience for your transportation operations, from warehousing and distribution centers to port facilities and airports. When not in use for backup power, the microgrid supports the local utility grid, helping to prevent blackouts during peak demand, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted logistics and transportation activities.
We help transportation customers safeguard their operations and cut costs through our innovative Resilience-as-a-Service (RaaS) and Energy Management Solutions.
Why Choose a Resiliency Solution?
RPower’s Resilience-as-a-Service (RaaS) provides a complete, turnkey energy solution for transportation operations. Offered as a convenient, monthly subscription, RaaS ensures resilience for your critical infrastructure.
Choosing our energy resilience solution helps you control energy expenses and provides robust protection from outages or disruptions due to weather or other risks. Additionally, you benefit from supporting the local community and the integration of intermittent renewable resources, while enjoying significant cost savings.
Revenues generated from these services offset the cost of your backup power system, giving you the lowest standby generation cost on the market.
The Case for Strategic Energy Management at Ports
Ports account for over 616 million tons of cargo and generate $450 billion in economic value, approximately 25% of the GDP of Texas. With that large share of state GDP, the transportation sector (of which ports are simply a subset) is forecasted to consume about 12.3TWh of Texas total 365TWh (less than 3%) in 2025.
With the growth in volume through the ports, a greater portion of the Texas economy relies on a paradoxically small user of electricity (compared to other industrial sectors). This means that minor disruptions in a port’s energy supply create large disruptions in Texas’ economy.
How Resilience-as-a-Service Works
RPower’s
Resilience-as-a-Service
RPower’s Resilience-as-a-Service is designed to provide comprehensive and reliable energy solutions that ensure continuous power availability and operational stability for businesses. Our service encompasses the entire lifecycle of a microgrid system, from initial sourcing and installation to ongoing maintenance and monitoring.
RPower’s Resilience-as-a-Service is your partner in creating a robust, efficient, and financially sustainable energy ecosystem. With our expert team and cutting-edge technology, you can rest assured that your energy needs are in capable hands.
Energy Management Services for the Transportation Sector
RPower offers tailored energy management solutions designed to help businesses in the transportation sector understand and optimize their energy usage, improve efficiency, and achieve significant savings.
Our team of industry experts, with decades of experience, will analyze your specific energy profile to develop a strategy that optimizes your energy usage and procurement.
Based on your assessment, circumstances, and location, we provide a range of energy management services to meet your needs.
Energy Optimization Services
Energy Market Operations
Demand Response Programs for the Transportation Sector
RPower’s Demand Response services help businesses manage electric usage and participate in Demand Response programs by leveraging their generation assets or curtailing energy consumption.
Our turnkey program optimizes energy consumption to enhance your bottom line. The RPower team provides real-time monitoring, updates and guidance on when and how to adjust electricity consumption most effectively. Depending on your energy profile, additional savings can be achieved through other energy management services.
Demand Response from RPower in 4 Simple Steps
The goal with a demand response program is to reduce stress on the grid during times of peak demand, maximize your compensation, and enhance grid reliability for the entire community.
Businesses partner with RPower to reduce energy consumption during periods of high grid demand.
Should the electric grid stability be jeopardized due to extreme weather or other extreme operating circumstances, RPower provides real-time guidance to our customer to reduce energy load consumption.
Customers make the recommended adjustments to reduce energy usage. In many cases, we can even automate the customer’s participation.
The customer is compensated with savings or reimbursements for helping support the local electric grid.
Coincident Peak Avoidance
Coincident Peak Avoidance helps reduce energy costs by managing and shifting power usage during peak demand times. By implementing this strategy, businesses can achieve significant savings on their utility bills while optimizing energy efficiency.
What Are Coincident Peak (CP) Charges?
Coincident peak (CP) charges, or transmission charges, make up a substantial portion of businesses’ energy bill. These costs correlate to energy consumption for commercial and industrial electricity customers within specific periods of the year that demand for electricity is highest.
With RPower’s services for energy monitoring and management, customers gain significant savings by strategically reducing load and conserving energy during these times.
When Do Coincident Peak (CP) Charges Happen?
Coincident peak charges can vary by state but are often in the summer season, when the demand placed on the electric grid is higher. For example, Texas’ highest demand occurs during the 4 months from June through September. During these months RPower forecasts CP event warnings and manages load either through curtailment or onsite generation to reduce customer demand.
What Factors Impact CP Charges and Savings?
The extent of potential savings depends on a few variables that differ from company to company, including:
Energy Dispatch and Energy Market Operations
The RPower Market Operations Center manages the interaction between the grid operator, utilities, and our managed resources (i.e. generation and storage assets). Our operators are trained to handle all aspects of Day-Ahead, Hour-Ahead, Real-Time Market, Scheduling and resource dispatch and recall.
Economic Energy Dispatch
Resources that can respond to real-time market signals and dispatch can take advantage of wholesale energy market participation. Thus, creating revenue can be realized as energy savings or as a standalone revenue stream. Each resource is unique and the RPower team will analyze and recommend the best strategy and operating parameters for your resource.
Ancillary Energy Management Services
Ancillary services maintain grid stability and address issues like unplanned outages. RPower, an ERCOT Level Four Qualified Scheduling Entity, uses advanced technology and experienced operators to manage these services.
Grid Operator and Utility Settlements
Energy market participation has several aspects that need to be properly covered. The enrollment and dispatch of a resource is just the beginning. RPower staff oversees the reconciliation and settlement of resources as they participate in energy market programs and services.
24/7 Real-Time Desk and Scheduling
The RPower ‘MOC’ is staffed to handle all aspects of energy market participation. Daily power scheduling, demand response, ancillary, and economic dispatch are at the core of our teams’ ability.
Regulation services or AGC
Ideally suited for generation, storage or controllable loads that respond in seconds to signals from the grid operator or utility.
Non-spinning reserves and ECRS
Generation, storage or controllable loads than can respond in between 10-30 minutes providing protection against unplanned generation and transmission outages.
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