Solution: Prenova provides a range of Demand Response solutions, including the conventional market solution version of Interruptible Demand Response. Demand Response programs begin when end-use customers are notified of a capacity or other constraint condition and are encouraged to reduce peak energy demand. Customers are given a short period of time to decide if they will participate and reduce their electric demand to stabilize the grid. With Prenova’s Interruptible Demand Response, end-use customers are given several options:

• Load Curtailment:  either manually or automatically via remote intervention from Prenova’s Real Time Network Operations Center, customers voluntarily take the action to shut off predetermined, non-essential equipment or assets (e.g. turning off lights in certain zones) in response to a market signal forwarded by Prenova.

• Load Shifting:  either manually or automatically via remote intervention from Prenova’s Real Time Network Operations Center, customers voluntarily take the action to shift planned schedules of operation to reduce the impact of consumption on grid peak demand times (e.g. shift pre-cooling schedules in summer prior to location opening) in response to a market signal forwarded by Prenova.