Post: Your questions about Demand Response

Demand response programs provide an opportunity for commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations to earn incentive payments while helping maintain a reliable electric system.  

When the electric grid faces supply and demand constraints, utilities and grid operators dispatch GridBeyond’s demand response network, which is made up of businesses that have agreed to reduce energy usage during these times of high demand.  

Program participants earn payments for agreeing to be on standby and curtailing electricity consumption when called upon in response to these events. 

• Maximize payments to your bottom line: GridBeyond manages your participation from start to finish, ensuring you earn the highest possible financial reward.  

• Improve your facilities’ resilience: In addition to the payments, participants receive advanced notification of grid stability issues, enabling them to proactively protect their facilities from potential power outages. 

• Support your community: Your participation helps maintain reliable, low-cost electricity in your community. 

• Sustainability and compliance: Meet net-zero targets by reducing carbon emissions without compromising performance. 

GridBeyond makes participation easy. We take care of the complex details so you can stay focused on running your business. 

Our expert team will work with you to identify your energy reduction potential and create a strategy that delivers maximum value with minimum impact on your operations. We outline these measures in a customized energy reduction plan.  

In some cases, we install necessary metering devices at your facility to establish communication with our Network Operations Center (NOC), so we can monitor your energy consumption levels in real time. 

Your site is then enrolled and ready to respond when a dispatch begins.  

Throughout the process, we fully manage enrollment, measurement, verification and payments on your behalf. 

• Notification: When high demand on the grid is anticipated, the grid operator or utility will dispatch the GridBeyond network into action. We will notify you, depending on your preferences, to inform you when the dispatch will begin. 

• Response: At the start of the dispatch, your facility will reduce its electricity usage according to your predetermined energy reduction plan – either manually or, if requested, automatically by GridBeyond’s NOC. 

• Support: Before, during, and after a dispatch, our NOC remains in communication with your facility. Our staff is available 24x7x365, supporting you to ensure that you achieve the highest possible levels of performance and payments. 

Our team has extensive experience creating energy-reducing facilities, including cold storage, manufacturing, food processing, and more. We implement full control systems that allow your electric load to be optimised. 

Common reduction examples include: 

• Shutting down certain operations temporarily  

• Cycling off energy intensive equipment 

• Reducing use of air conditioning  

• Reducing HVAC or lighting to minimum levels 

• Transferring load to backup generator 

Our experts are standing by to speak with you about your organisation’s demand response opportunity. Submit your information here to get a conversation started with our team.