Comments on: PG&E Ups In-House Demand Response — Utility Trend? http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/05/pge-ups-in-house-demand-response-utility-trend/ Helping the Earth with Technology Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:42:50 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Demand Response is great http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/05/pge-ups-in-house-demand-response-utility-trend/#comment-17030 Demand Response is great Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:01:01 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=7991#comment-17030 <p>I agree with USMG... Enernoc shouldn't have much of a problem in terms of competition. They continue to grow as a company and are signing more and more contracts. It will be interesting to see what happens after their energy management/energy analytics services start picking up steam.</p> I agree with USMG… Enernoc shouldn’t have much of a problem in terms of competition. They continue to grow as a company and are signing more and more contracts. It will be interesting to see what happens after their energy management/energy analytics services start picking up steam.

]]> By: PG&E launches PeakChoice demand response program : Clean Energy Markets http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/05/pge-ups-in-house-demand-response-utility-trend/#comment-16845 PG&E launches PeakChoice demand response program : Clean Energy Markets Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:09:45 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=7991#comment-16845 <p>[...] New Jersey, PG&E has launched a new demand-response program, called PeakChoice, which offers incentives to business customers who agree to reduce power usage by up to 10 percent [...]</p> [...] New Jersey, PG&E has launched a new demand-response program, called PeakChoice, which offers incentives to business customers who agree to reduce power usage by up to 10 percent [...]

]]> By: USMG http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/05/pge-ups-in-house-demand-response-utility-trend/#comment-16798 USMG Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:26:24 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=7991#comment-16798 <p>Don't read too much into this. In a lot of service areas the incumbent utility offers Demand Response services, but they tend to only get a small percentage of marketshare because the ratio of customers to reps is very large and sales coverage spotty.</p> <p>Sometimes the Utility just legitimizes the pratice in the customer's mind.</p> <p>Finally, some of these same utilities will put our RFP's for servicing contracts which the independents (Like ENOC) can compete for and given the robustness of their backend processing services it is actually cheaper for them to do it than the utility</p> Don’t read too much into this. In a lot of service areas the incumbent utility offers Demand Response services, but they tend to only get a small percentage of marketshare because the ratio of customers to reps is very large and sales coverage spotty.

Sometimes the Utility just legitimizes the pratice in the customer’s mind.

Finally, some of these same utilities will put our RFP’s for servicing contracts which the independents (Like ENOC) can compete for and given the robustness of their backend processing services it is actually cheaper for them to do it than the utility

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