Energy Price Arbitrage
Challenge: Businesses or individuals take advantage of the price differential between off-peak and peak electricity for profit.
Electricity price fluctuations can be significant depending on several factors: the time of day the energy is used; the amount of energy used over a contractually agreed upon threshold; the type of generation technology employed, and more.
If a supplier, business or individual can produce and store low cost energy, and then make it available to the producer for release back to the grid during times of high demand, there exists the opportunity for a respectable profit.
Demand Energy Solution: Distributed Demand Shifters™ located at the point of independent generation store energy to dispatch to the grid at the centralized provider's discretion.
Distributed Demand Shifters can be deployed at independent renewable generation locations across a service territory. They can be ordered to dispatch by the utility energy buyer during times of high demand and/or premium price.
Value: Arbitrageurs generate and store excess power at low cost, then allow the energy provider to purchase and dispatch it onto the grid and profit from the price differential.
Energy Price Arbitrage
Demand Shifters installed at the points of independent generation. Energy would be dispatched by the utility back onto the grid and the generation owner compensated for the power.