The Clean Energy Network™ demand response program provides incentives to customers for temporarily reducing their power demand in response to;
- Periods of high wholesale electricity prices
- Grid system resource capacity shortages
- Grid system reliability events
- Economic curtailment incentives
IntelliGEN's Clean Energy Network ™ is group of renewably minded commercial, institutional, and industrial businesses joined together forming a virtual clean energy power plant providing reliability services to Grid Operators in exchange for a payment.
The Clean Energy Network ™ enables your business to provide an insurance policy against grid failure by reducing your consumption according to the predetermined measures and comfort levels that makes sense for your operations, and like an insurance provider your business is paid a “premium” for your contribution to the grid.
The Clean Energy Network ™ is called to action when an emergency “event” threatens to disrupt the flow of power to the community. While historically these emergency “events” are exceedingly rare, IntelliGEN’s 24/7/365 Operations Center is prepared and ready to respond to the Grid Operator’s request for emergency assistance. When unforeseen circumstances escalate beyond the control of the Grid Operator, IntelliGEN Resources is notified and responds by alerting the Clean Energy Network of the impending circumstances and immediately sends deployment signals to the IntelliGEN site control server installed at each facility initiating the execution of the predefined energy load reduction measures.
The Clean Energy Network’s aggregated resources are equivalent to a large generating plant coming online to provide the necessary capacity to stabilize the grid and prevent a loss of power to the community.
In addition to providing the community with power grid reliability, participation reduces the need for the development of new power generation plants which lessens the associated environmental impact new generation plants bring to the community.
The likelihood of being asked to reduce or shut off power is very low for the Clean Energy Network ™ EILS Program, described by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) as a "1 in 10 year event."
