Demand response is not new. What is missing, for most commercial and industrial sites, is someone who will sit down with the meter data, the equipment list and the shift pattern and work out whether any of it is worth taking to a provider.
That is the demand-response side, and it is the whole job: we assess the site, take what we find to providers, and stay involved while they decide. The provider runs the program and pays the participant. We are the part in between.
Alongside it sits Ray, our solar development work, for facilities whose better opportunity is generating power rather than shifting when they use it. Some sites end up doing both, and the assessment is where we work out which.
The Vision
Efficiency, energy, economics. Every site we look at gets all three, in that order, because there is no point pricing flexibility you have not measured, or generating power you are wasting.
Efficiency
How energy is generated and used
First we understand the site: what it consumes, when, through which equipment, and where that consumption is avoidable or moveable. Nothing sensible follows until this is clear.
Energy
Generating it where that makes sense
Where a site is better served producing power than buying it, we develop solar and storage, from assessment and system design through to an operating asset.
This is Ray.
Economics
Turning flexibility into money
Where a site can shift or reduce load, we take that to demand-response providers and coordinate participation in the programs that pay for it.
This is WattRewards.
Two lines of work, one assessment
Demand response
Assess what a facility can shift or reduce, coordinate with demand-response providers, and support enrollment. The provider runs the program; we handle everything up to and around it.
Ray
Solar development
Take a site from assessment and system design through procurement, construction and commissioning, to an operating asset. For facilities whose flexibility is limited but whose roof or land is not.
Three parties, and what each one holds
Demand response involves three parties. Confusion about which one does what is where most of the risk sits, so here is the division plainly.
You
The facility
- Decide what can move and what cannot
- Approve the operating limits
- Deliver the reduction when an event is called
- Receive payment from the provider
Effiqor
The coordinator
- Assess the site and its flexibility
- Document your limits before anything is proposed
- Take the assessment to providers
- Explain terms, and stay involved after enrollment
The program operator
- Confirm eligibility
- Set program rules and event terms
- Call events and measure performance
- Pay the participant
Effiqor never buys or sells electricity, operates the grid, dispatches your equipment, runs a virtual power plant, or guarantees earnings or eligibility. Ray, our solar development work, is a separate engagement with its own scope.
Four things we hold to
- 01
An early no beats a late yes
If a site will not qualify, or participation would cost more in disruption than it returns, you hear it in the first conversation rather than the fourth.
- 02
Your operating limits are the starting point
We write down what cannot move before anything is proposed. Those limits go to the provider as constraints, not as opening positions.
- 03
Plain language, including the awkward parts
Eligibility, obligations, measurement and termination explained in the words you would use yourself.
- 04
One person who knows your site
Not a queue, not a handover. The same contact through assessment, enrollment and whatever follows.
Early, and saying so
The assessment process and the customer journey are defined. Provider relationships are being established and a first group of facilities is being prepared. We have not run a program at scale, and we would rather tell you that here than have you discover it later.
- Focus
- Commercial & industrial demand response
- Services
- Site assessment, provider coordination, enrollment support
- Stage
- Pre-pilot