Demand Response for Business

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Demand Response for Business offers C&I customers manual or automated demand response to reduce load during winter and targeted summer events, with financial incentives.

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Service details

Service type
Load reduction
Eligible technologies
Demand Response
Competition frequency
Annual
Locational scope
Territory-wide
Seasonality
Winter: November-March; Summer: June-September

Eligibility

Direct
Aggregated
Residential
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
Commercial & Industrial
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
Front-of-the-Meter
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.
This participation route is eligible.
This participation route may be eligible
This participation route is not eligible.

Commercial and industrial customers can enroll for manual or automated demand response with minimum load reduction requirements.

Key details

Participants receive $50 per kW per season based on enrolled load reduction, no competitive bidding.
Loads are dispatched manually or automatically via OpenADR during DR events.
Payments are calculated using baselines and applied to bills after each season.
Listing last updated on
09 September 2025

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