Spinning & Supplemental Reserve
Challenge: Maintain reserve energy supplies while conserving costly generation assets.
Regulatory agencies or oversight organizations such as ISOs require that energy providers be ready to deliver base-line power supplies at a moment's notice in times of need. Even when demand is low and expensive generation assets could be conserved, these resources must be idling on stand-by, or spinning reserve status, at off-peak times.
Regardless of the generation method, the assets needed for reserve requirements are costly to construct, manage, and operate. Rather than deliver revenue, unproductive resources simply suffer wear and tear and waste maintenance dollars.
Demand Energy Solution: Distributed Demand Shifters™ that create load and charge during peak and off-peak hours, then discharge on command at those exceptional times when spinning reserve is required.
Install Demand Shifters scaled to alleviate reserve load demands at distributed locations. Charge them during off-peak periods. The stored energy is held in reserve to fulfill stand-by requirements and dispatched if and when reserves are needed, or if reserves were not needed, dispatched during peak periods then charged again.
Value: Store excess power during hours of peak and off-peak production regardless of demand, and discharge to reduce response time and meet reserve requirements.
Meet Spinning Reserve Requirements
Sufficient Demand Shifters would be installed at distributed locations in the service territory to meet all or part of spinning reserve needs. Power could be dispatched if reserve energy is needed.