Flex Monetization
Helping companies earn money and support electrical grid resiliency with their flexible energy capacity.
Frequent Customer Challenges
Grid operators offer demand response (DR) programs that provide bill savings or revenue to customers who reduce electricity usage during periods of peak demand. This helps balance supply and demand, manage energy costs and emissions, and support grid resiliency. Customers can potentially make money by participating in these DR programs.
We can help you quantify the opportunity. With Blueprint Power’s services and Real-time Flex Energy Platform, we can give you insight into where building flexible energy capacity may exist.
Blueprint Power can help you identify DR program options that align with your flexible energy capacity and operational and financial goals. In some cases, customers can participate in multiple programs, and we can help you assess the opportunities.
Real-time energy usage insights can indicate where companies need to improve demand response performance during events to increase revenue opportunities. Blueprint Power’s Real-time Flex Energy Platform can provide that visibility, along with in-event suggestions by our team.
Blueprint Power can help you assess relevant DR programs for your business. We also offer services that provide you with real-time visibility into energy usage, so you can proactively manage usage during DR events to help meet program payout requirements.
Blueprint Power can connect you with resources to help you review your tariff rates and supply options so you can put solutions in place that work best for you.
Blueprint Power Solutions
‘Flexible energy capacity’ is the ability of buildings to generate, store, and manage their own energy, by changing the amount (kWh) and timing of electricity sourced from the grid and by using onsite power sources (e.g. solar, generators, EV charging, battery energy storage). By utilizing their buildings’ flexible energy capacity, companies can help close energy supply and demand gaps more quickly, securely, and affordably, and with lower-carbon energy sources.
Demand Response Services
To manage electricity costs, resiliency, and emissions, grid operators and utilities offer demand response (DR) programs that provide revenue to customers who reduce electricity usage during periods of peak demand. We help customers identify DR options optimized for their business, prepare for DR participation, provide assistance during DR events, and manage payment settlement with the DR program operator. We customize our DR management approach to our customers’ businesses to help them improve their results and make better use of their time. Companies can potentially earn thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year from DR programs.1
Bill Savings Programs
Grid operators use electricity demand charges to incentivize efficient electricity usage and maintain grid reliability. We help companies manage their demand charges by supporting their participation in bill savings programs. Coincident peak demand charges, for example, are determined by a site’s usage during the highest system-wide demand across a specific time interval. Blueprint Power can help customers predict when peaks may happen, notify customers when to consider reducing demand, and help customers develop energy curtailment procedures to apply during these times. Companies have opportunities to reduce usage costs during these periods and their rate for demand charges the following year.
Value to Our Customers
Beneficial Outcomes
Support monetary, resiliency, and emissions reduction benefits among the business, community, and the grid
New Cash Flows
Generate new cash flows from building assets, potentially without capital investment
Operational Resiliency
Leverage the value of energy assets and their flexibility to support business operations and the grid
Examples in Action
We helped an office building portfolio expand its flexible energy capacity for DR enrollment across multiple properties in the city, resulting in a 250% increase in DR revenue.
We enrolled a corporate campus in multiple DR programs that better fit campus goals. Revenue and bill savings improved 24x in 2 years versus a prior vendor’s approach.
We helped a non-profit add DR revenue, which the organization could use to help offset operational expenses and apply more donor funds directly towards its mission.
We can potentially help building owners start to generate cash flow, carbon reduction, and resiliency benefits in just a few months, while planning and implementing value-generating site improvements for the long-term.
2 Read how our approach can potentially help organizations reduce carbon emissions: https://www.blueprintpower.com/reducing-emissions