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Making Money with Your Energy:
How to Capture Incentives for Helping the Power Grid
Energy users with large, flexible loads can earn revenue, reduce costs and advance sustainability goals without impacting productivity. In this guide, you will gain an understanding of the capabilities and benefits of virtual power plants (VPPs) for facilities, and how to unlock the full value of your distributed energy resources (DERs) through grid services opportunities.
Maximizing the Value of Your Generation:
How to earn more and spend less by distinguishing between emergency, non-emergency and distributed generation.
Reclassifying your emergency generation as non-emergency generation provides a great opportunity to generate revenue and savings through demand response programs. However, you could earn and save even more if your asset(s) further qualify as distributed generation.
Generating Revenue with Your Emergency Generation:
How to Reclassify Assets as Non-Emergency Generation
Renewables are here and continue to displace traditional coal resources on the grid. Battery storage is compelling and becoming more cost-effective. Utilities are battling the challenges of grid intermittency amidst infrastructure challenges to support renewable penetration. All of this to say, back-up generators are still a key resource when it comes to energy resilience and still remain a misunderstood DER. In this whitepaper, we provide best practices for energy managers and engineers to monetize these assets by participating in Virtual Power Plants including demand response.
Creating the Customer-Powered Grid©:
A Primer on How Distributed Energy Resources and Virtual Power Plants Can Enable a Flexible, Clean and Dependable Energy Future
Dive into the challenges that compromise the grid’s ability to reliably deliver electricity as energy users have come to expect – and discover how we can best transition to clean energy. Learn how we can collectively ensure the flexibility the grid increasingly needs through distributed energy resources and virtual power plants.
Unlocking the Full Potential of DERs:
Overcoming Capacity Pricing and Other Barriers To Ensure Grid Reliability
Gain new insight into how demand response (DR) enables the energy transition, as a low-cost, reliable, and clean grid resource. In this report with Wood Mackenzie, we examine the opportunities and challenges in unlocking the full flexibility of distributed energy resources with DR and highlight the market reforms needed.
Exercising Existing Rights to Regulate Demand Response in the Midwest While Safeguarding Local Jurisdiction:
A Guide for State Regulatory Commissions, Electric Cooperatives and Municipal Electric Utilities
Get the must-have framework for state regulators and municipal and cooperative utilities that want to bolster the grid by providing a pathway for the development of virtual power plants (VPPs) in the Midwest. Many stakeholders in the Midwest are looking for ways to meet resource adequacy requirements and stabilize the grid amidst tightening reserve margins and the need to lower energy costs — and this whitepaper shows how it can be done with VPPs.
