RPower Energy Management Services
RPower provides businesses with a comprehensive range of strategic, tailored energy management solutions that will help you understand and optimize your energy usage, improve efficiency, and ultimately generate meaningful savings.
Our team of industry experts, with decades of experience, will analyze your specific energy profile to develop an effective strategy optimizing your energy usage and procurement.
Depending on your assessment, specific circumstances and location, we offer various energy management services to our customers
Energy Optimization Services
Energy Market Operations
Demand Response Programs
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.
RPower Options for Demand Response Service
Choose between short-term and long-term notification programs
10-Minute Program
If you are able to adjust energy usage quickly, a 10-minute demand response program may provide the most revenue potential.
30-Minute Program
Customers who need more time to effectively adjust usage are better suited for a 30-minute response program.
Seasonality of Demand Response
Programs can differ in value season to season. Additionally, a customer’s energy usage will also differ accordingly. RPower will assure that your participation matches your ability to perform in any Demand Response Program.
Every State and Utility Program Is Different
Registration and pre-qualification for Demand Response program participation varies from state-to-state and from utility-to-utility. The RPower team will lead the effort to meet enrollment pre-qualification deadlines on your behalf.
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. load, 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 a revenue source that 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.
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 services, and economic dispatch are at the core of our teams’ ability.
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.
Ancillary Energy Management Services
Ancillary services are products procured by the Energy Market or utilities to maintain grid stability and help remediate adverse conditions such as an unplanned generation or transmission outages.
RPower is a ERCOT Level IV Qualified Scheduling Entity equipped with the latest energy market and SCADA technology, and staffed with a team of experienced operators.
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.
Ancillary services maybe a good fit your business if automation and more frequent deployment are acceptable. Enrollment in ancillary service programs can provide for significant compensation depending on the season and level of participation.
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