Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. Enters Into Agreement with Southern California Edison for 40 MW

Program to focus on large electricity users

 

Buffalo, New York,
June 9 – Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc. (ECS), the leading
provider of “clean” demand response solutions, announced today that it
has signed a demand response agreement with Southern California Edison
(SCE).

 

The agreement is a year-round contract to provide 40
MW of on-call demand reductions to SCE in both the winter and summer
months. A unique characteristic of ECS’ program is that it requires
day-ahead notice for customers and caps the number of hours customers
can be called upon. ECS has already launched two highly successful
demand response programs in both the Pacific Gas & Electric
(PG&E) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E)
territories. One month after launching its PG&E program, ECS’
customers contributed over 60% of available demand response in
PG&E’s AMP program, with five other providers combining to account
for the remaining 40%. The new agreement with SCE is still subject to
final approval by the California Public Utilities Commission.

 

ECS
will aggregate load curtailment from industrial, institutional, and
commercial customers within SCE’s service territory. Unlike most other
demand response service providers, ECS typically does not remotely
control a customer’s site, but allows customers the choice of how load
curtailment will occur at their facilities.

 

“Allowing the
customer to determine how load shedding takes place is critical for
many large industrial facilities, and is something ECS believes is
essential for the customer. What manufacturer is going to allow a third
party to control their production lines?” asked Glen Smith, president,
chief executive officer, and co-founder of ECS. “At ECS the customer
is first, we recognize that customers are each unique, they all don’t
fit in the same box, and maximizing customer participation in our
program comes from customer choice.”

 

About Energy Curtailment Specialists, Inc.

Energy
Curtailment Specialists, Inc. is the largest privately held demand
response provider in North America, currently serving markets in New
York, California, New England, Kansas City, PJM territories and
Ontario, Canada. ECS offers turnkey, administrative and a la carte
demand response services.

For more information, call 877-711-5453 or visit www.ecscal.com.