Energy Management - Asset Based Utility Programs

1. •Reduce demand peaks when the daily load duration curve reaches close to the limits of supply availability.
   

1. •Shift demand loads and valleys to leverage more competitive supply or environmental friendly resources.
   

1. •Allow for capacity planning and development for distribution and transmission assets to support organic population and economic growth.
   

1. •Allow diversifying supply through load level management techniques in the efforts of achieving the goals of a Least-Cost system.
   

In various energy markets today, there is growing pressure to ensure more reliable transmission of energy and security of supply. And an increasingly important factor is the concern over climate change, which has pushed energy and load management up in the agenda to support sustainable growth in these markets.  Depending on the type of market structure (structured regulated, single-source, open-access or power pool), our consultants’ approach to developing energy and load management programs will ensure the outcome has a positive impact on the energy load curve.  Generally the approach can be classified in the following segments:

Load Level – opportunities in this segment includes measures to shift the

load curve permanently to lower demand levels through energy efficiency measures or products, or by shifting loads from one energy system to another (fuel switching). Work within this segment primarily aims at the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, energy savings, and increased energy security.

Load Shape - encompasses measures that seek to impact the shape of the load curve during times of peak electricity demand, supply problems, grid problems, or price fluctuations. Work in this segment seeks to enable customers to significantly reduce or shift their energy load on short notice, so that utilities and energy companies can shave peaks and achieve greater system stability, efficiency and reliability.  This measures typically implemented in this segment seek to impact the shape of the load curve over very short (minutes-hours-day) to longer (days-week-season) time periods.  The list of specialized consulting services we provide in this segment include:

1. •Conduct analysis of various economic incentives and fiscal measures, including network and retail pricing systems, tariffs and levies that are coupled with real-time metering systems. 
   

1. •Study how energy systems respond to crisis - What happens during a crisis; what do users actually do – load leveling or shaping and what impact does this have on reliability and security.  Consequently develop load management agreements with end-use clients that would allow for sharing of any economic incentives from load curtailment or shifting.
   

1. •Assess the impact of efficiency and demand management measures, including accounting for load and GHG emissions reductions.
   

1. •Marketing of demand-side bidding of ancillary services and energy management systems.
   

Our client profiles include the following:

1. •Governments & Regulators - since it will increase the system security, improve economic efficiency and possibly also have positive impacts on the environment.
   

1. •Power Pool Operators - because of effects on market prices (with a clear customer benefit) and the reduction of the influence (power) of the dominant producers.
   

1. •Electric Distribution Network Operators - who will find a tool to handle bottlenecks under peak periods and to utilise network capacity better. They will find it easier to handle distributed generation capacities and to increase the quality and reliability of supply.
   

1. •Energy Marketers, Traders & Retailers for their risk management and also to find new businesses e.g. acting as “aggregators” of demand response to reduce portfolio price risks, and to
   

1. •Energy Users - who will have an economic benefit with the ability to efficiently react to prices and even trading of loads or ancillary loads.
   

Our experts have developed and led in the implementation of sustainable demand-side management programs for energy utilities involving end-users, project financing institutions, ESCos, equipment suppliers, contractors and government agencies that offers a comprehensive engineering and financial risk-mitigated approach in delivering energy efficiency and asset renewal projects in their respective utility service areas. 

If you would like to learn how to optimize your physical assets for renewal or efficiency improvements, please contact us with the above subject title at  enquiries@eaiglobal.com

“...Our experience in developing utility driven demand-side asset based efficiency programs will enable energy consumers to benefit from risk-mitigated solutions to reduce costs and harmful emissions to the environment, and alleviate supply-related stress on the electricity grid,”

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