WHO WE HELP
CPower has extensive experience helping organizations in a variety of industries achieve demand-side energy management success.
CPowered™
Brought to life and optimized by the CPower Team of Experts.
At CPower, we understand that the most effective kind of demand-side energy management is people-powered.
Customers choose CPower because of our people and the caring expertise they possess.
The term “CPowered” is our way of stamping a program or process with CPower’s people-powered approach, an approach that’s unrivaled in the industry.
It starts with CPower doing a complete assessment of your facilities to understand your energy needs and usage.
A CPowered™ strategy =
the optimal combination of program solutions + performance solutions
We begin by enrolling your organization in the right combination of programs.
CPOWERED™ PROGRAM SOLUTIONS:
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Demand Response
Demand response programs can be offered by your local utility or your energy market’s grid operator. While demand response programs vary from utility to utility and from market to market, they essentially fall into three types: capacity, ancillary, or economic. All three types of programs are discussed in more detail on this page.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand response, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Capacity Programs
Capacity programs are the backbone of demand response. They help create long-term grid stability by paying organizations to be on reserve to curtail their electrical load when called upon by the grid operator to relieve stress when the demand for electricity outpaces the grid’s ability to supply it.
With capacity programs, the grid operator is essentially creating an electricity reserve to be called on during the few times each year when the electric demand exceeds supply.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand response, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Economic Programs
Participants are notified when wholesale electricity prices are high and reduce their electric consumption, thereby minimizing the impact of price spikes, reducing the need for expensive capacity generation, and helping keep prices stable in the market.
Economic demand response participants also have the potential to significantly save on energy costs due to reduced consumption during these periods of high electricity prices.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand response, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Ancillary Services
When these unforeseeable circumstances take place, ancillary services can be called to quickly restore balance to the grid.
Ancillary service demand response programs pay organizations to be on call to make quick energy reductions in response to sudden, short-term grid instability. They are similar to capacity programs, with the exception that participating organizations must respond and curtail within short notice of being called on by the grid operator, typically within 10-30 minutes.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand response, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Demand Management
Demand management programs are similar to demand response programs in that they involve an organization reducing its energy. Unlike demand response programs, the participating organization is not responding to grid stress or volatile energy prices. Rather, the organization is reducing its demand–the maximum amount of electricity it consumes at a given time–in a way that saves the organization money and helps improve the grid.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand management, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Peak Demand Management
Capacity charges vary by the market, but can often account for 20-40% of an organization’s electricity bill.
Peak demand management programs enable an organization to lower its capacity charges by curtailing their energy load when the overall demand on the grid is at its highest.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand management, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Energy Efficiency
In some markets, the amount of energy saved as a result of energy efficiency improvements can be offered into a forward capacity auction (whereby the grid operator procures the capacity it forecasts it will need in the future) thus creating potential revenue for the participating organization.
As a licensed curtailment service provider (CSP) CPower can help enroll these energy assets so they can be monetized.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of demand management, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Distributed Energy Resources
Unlike conventional power plants, which typically require the electricity they generate to be transmitted over long distances, DER systems tend to be closer to the load they serve. For this reason, DERs offer more flexible resources than those generated by centralized power stations.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of distributed energy resources, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Energy Storage
Organizations that utilize energy storage can purchase electricity during off-peak times when prices are low, store it, and then use it during on-peak times when demand and prices are high.
Energy storage helps an organization lower its overall energy spend while protecting against changing prices, all the while supporting a sustainable grid.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of distributed energy resources, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
Distributed Generation
In many markets, backup generators are allowed to run during a demand response event, providing organizations with an advantage when it comes to earning revenue through energy curtailment.
For a complete lesson on the fundamentals of distributed energy resources, visit CPower’s Demand Side Energy Management 101.
CPOWERED™ PERFORMANCE SOLUTIONS:
Once your organization is enrolled in the optimal combination of program solutions, CPower then tailors our proprietary performance solutions to suit your unique needs.
CPower App
Access real-time energy usage information directly to your desktop or mobile device, quickly and intuitively.
CPower App
With a click of the mouse or a touch of your screen, the CPower App allows you to access all of your vital usage and load information quickly and intuitively.
The CPower App makes it easy to monitor energy usage and schedule load curtailments for demand response programs. By connecting directly to your energy meter, the CPower App provides real-time power usage information directly to your desktop or mobile device.
The CPower App links you to your independent system operator (ISO), allowing you to offer load into synchronized, day-ahead, and real-time markets. The App also provides pricing information and lets you monitor energy consumption levels, so you can make effective energy management decisions.
Learn how CPower brings powerful demand management tools to your desktop or mobile device.
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Facility Assessment
Our team of experts will conduct a complete assessment of your facilities to understand your energy needs and usage.
Facility Assessment
When you’re a CPower customer, you have a team of experts to help you get the most from your demand-side energy management.
Your CPower team will conduct a complete assessment of your facilities to understand your energy needs and usage. We identify where your organization can cut back on energy and still meet the needs of day to day business.
Total Metering Solution
Eliminate the stress and risk of meter ownership– installed and serviced for life by CPower.
Total Metering Solution
CPower’s Total Metering Solution eliminates the stress and risk of meter ownership by providing customers with an up-to-date, secure, reliable CPower Meter–installed and serviced-for life by CPower experts.
Available to CPower customers with no out-of-pocket costs, the Total Meter Solution provides a framework for automation while offering access to the CPower App to monitor all of your energy usage, curtailment program participation, and payments on your desktop and mobile device.
Advocacy
CPower is dedicated to helping your organization navigate the energy industry's complex regulatory landscape.
Advocacy
Demand-side energy management, in all of its forms, exists to better our society through the practice of safe, efficient, and sustainable energy use.
Your CPower team of experts includes market specialists who advocate on your behalf and that of your fellow ratepayers to help shape regulation in the energy industry in a way that facilitates the fundamental premise of demand-side energy management.
Performance Reporting
Access crucial insights about your curtailment performance that can easily be shared within your company.
Performance Reporting
As a CPower customer, you’ll have access to CPowered performance reporting in as little as five minutes following some events, providing crucial insights on your curtailment performance that can easily be shared with key personnel and stakeholders within your company.
As always, your CPower team of experts is just a call or click away to answer any questions you may have about your report or how you can improve your performance to earn and save more money from your curtailment.
Optimized Enrollments & Payments
Time is money when it comes to participating demand-side energy management programs.
Optimized Enrollments & Payments
Time is money when it comes to participating demand-side energy management programs.
That’s why CPower’s team of experts will make sure that your organization is properly enrolled in your selected program(s) within 24 hours of our collecting the necessary data to ensure your enrollment is accurate, allowing your organization to start earning without delay.
24/7 Dispatch
CPower’s in house dispatch team is on call around the clock, executing your curtailment strategy during a demand response event.
24/7 Dispatch
CPower’s dispatch team is on call around the clock and will let you know when it’s time to curtail your load.
Unlike many of our competitors who outsource their dispatch services to third parties, CPower’s dispatch team is 100% in-house. That means there is no wasted communication when the ISO calls a demand response event, giving you the maximum amount of time to execute your curtailment strategy.
Curtailment Planning
No one knows your facility and your operation like you do. That’s why we build an action plan that incorporates what’s most important to you.
Curtailment Planning
CPower takes the complexity of site-wide curtailment and molds it into a comprehensive, easy-to-follow curtailment action plan to help you best monetize your energy assets and mitigate risk to operations and grid performance. Our engineering team provides an in-depth engineering assessment and analysis of your energy system and how electricity flows through your daily operations. From there, we submit recommendations covering the full range of possible event and test curtailment scenarios you may encounter.
No one knows your facility and your operation like you do. That’s why we build an action plan that incorporates what’s most important to you—safety, comfort, operational practicality, and grid reliability. The result combines our national experience and local expertise with your extensive experience and intensive knowledge, to create an action plan that keeps you running safely and at peak performance while ensuring maximum payments from your demand response programs
Automation
CPower Link, when combined with The CPower App, helps you get the most of your automated demand response.
Automation
Automating your demand response can improve your performance, your DR revenue, and your sustainability profile. To succeed, though, it must be tailored to perfectly fit your specific requirements. You may want a fully automated process that executes commands through your building management system. You may want to limit it to automated notifications that let you control exactly how you respond. Or you may want a combination of automation and autonomy that exactly matches your needs.
The CPower Monitoring System combines our secure Total Metering Solution and CPower App with our Link application programming interface (API), to create an integrated automatic DR system designed for real-time energy management. Link API, our best-kept secret, seamlessly integrates our automated Metering and Dispatch processes with your building management systems, providing you with the ability to enact predetermined load management measures at close to a moment’s notice. Best of all, you can track your activity and confirm your curtailment in real time, right from your mobile device.
We serve more than 1,300 commercial and industrial customers at over 7,000 sites in the US and Canada.