Enhanced Savings through Active Management
Active management lowers the price of retail energy
Tangent’s integrated energy solution combines an on-site clean generation asset, operations, and active management to save commercial and industrial (C&I) customers 10% to 20% by lowering the price they pay for energy.
Active Management Benefits Include:
- Lower retail price for energy
- Less disruption than demand response
Savings beyond the asset
In unregulated markets, C&I energy customers can avoid premium pricing situations by managing peak energy usage. Energy peaks, like the ones that occur on hot days when everyone turns on their air-conditioners, drive higher prices because they are costly for utilities. Customers can impact energy peaks in two ways:
- Magnitude – The more peak usage exceeds a customer’s average usage, the higher the price.
- Timing – When peak usage for an individual customer coincides with peak usage for the overall grid, customers pay higher prices.
On-site clean generation assets are part of the answer — but when they are not available or sufficient, Tangent’s active management reduces the frequency and severity of usage peaks. Our energy efficiency technology automatically reduces usage by imperceptibly adjusting industrial processes lighting, and HVAC. And, unlike demand response programs that offer indirect incentives and carry onerous curtailment commitments, active management provides direct savings in the form of lower prices. It also allows customers to determine their own efficiency settings –so lowering usage will never disrupt the customer’s business or operation.
Find out how Tangent provides clean on-site generation assets at no cost, and secures the savings generated by these assets through a comprehensive operations & management program.
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How Active Management Works
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Graph 1 illustrates energy use for an actual customer before Tangent. High peaks = high prices.
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Graph 2 shows a customer using solar generation, but no active management. All but two peaks were reduced but these two peaks could have had a profound effect on prices.
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Graph 3: active management reduced the remaining two peaks creating a lower basis for pricing retail energy.
By combining solar assets with active management, this customer realized an 18% overall savings on their energy bill.