Enel and MISO are partnering to offer commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations incentive payments for participating in a program to maintain a reliable and cost-effective electric grid. In this program, large energy consumers can earn payments for making targeted energy reductions during periods of peak demand. Enel, the world leader in demand response, connects large energy consumers to these programs and ensures that they can maximize their payments while keeping operational disruption to a minimum. Meanwhile, MISO can make the grid more efficient and continue to keep energy prices among the lowest in the nation. Read on for answers to some frequently asked questions about demand response with Enel and MISO.
Program Overview
| Program Period & Hours | Year Round, 24x7, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring Seasons |
| Payments | Capacity & Energy |
| Dispatch Notification | 6 hours – 30 minutes; based on customer choice |
| Dispatch Duration | 4 hours maximum |
| Dispatch Frequency | Need to be available for up to 16 dispatches per year, historically there have been 0 – 3 per year |
| Participation Requirements | 100 kW minimum obligation across zonal portfolio |
| Generator Eligibility | Properly permitted generators are eligible |
| Audit Requirement | Annual testing required; test counts towards availability requirement |
What are the Benefits?
Maximize payments to your bottom line: Enel manages your participation from start to finish, ensuring you earn the highest possible financial reward. Since 2003, our customers have earned over $1B in payments.
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.
What can I expect during a dispatch?
Notification: When MISO anticipates high demand on the grid, it dispatches the Enel network into action. Enel will notify you via email, phone, strobe light, or SMS, 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 Enel’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.
What Types of Reductions Can I Make?
Enel has extensive experience creating energy reduction strategies that work within the operational limitations of a wide variety of facilities, including cold storage, manufacturing, food processing, universities, malls, office buildings and more. We can also help to implement full control systems that allow your electric load to be toggled remotely.
- Common reduction examples include:
- Modify manufacturing processes
- Adjust HVAC equipment
- Dial back pumps
- Change settings in industrial freezers
- Reduce non-essential lighting
Customers often facilitate dispatch participation by simply shifting many of their energy-intensive processes by a few hours. Ask us about our experience working with customers like you.
How Do I Sign Up?
Our experts are standing by to speak with you about your organization’s DR opportunity. Submit your information here to get started.
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