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As the GA cost pool is decreasing year over year, the decision to either opt-in to Class A or Class B needs to be more thought out. Decreasing GA cost pool means that the amount of potential savings is also reduced, so only customers who can hit all 5 peaks and curtail cheaply will reap the full benefit of being Class A.

As countries around the world start/continue their transitions to renewable energy while also electrifying different sectors, new technologies must step up to support these parallel revolutions. While it might not be the “silver bullet” solution, it is now clear that energy storage in various forms will be a crucial supportive technology – ensuring a successful and sustainable transition over the coming years and decades.

The IESO has released the draft agreements for the new Energy Performance Program (EPP). This program is a new approach to energy savings which takes a look at the total building energy consumption instead of looking at specific equipment.

Alert Labs’ Partnership with Edgecom Energy provides turn-key flood detection and water monitoring.

pTrack™ helped Dunn Paper’s facility in St. Catherines increase their Global Adjustment savings.

Over the past few weeks, the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) has issued an unusually high number of standby calls to participants in the Demand Response (DR) program. Although this might be frustrating for DR participants and has kept us all busy recently, there are good reasons to explain the recent increase in calls. This blog post will briefly outline why standby and activation calls are issued in normal circumstances and will explain the IESO’s recent increase in calls.

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Over the past few years, Edgecom Energy has gained a lot of experience as a Demand Response Aggregator in the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO)’s Demand response program – now called the Capacity Auction. In this time, we have also received and answered a wide variety of questions from our customers relating to the program and how it works. In this post, you’ll find a selection of these questions and answers.

In our last blog post; we explored the impact COVID-19 will have on The Ontario Electricity Demand and how this may impact the Top 5 Coincident Peaks for the Industrial Conservation Initiative (ICI) program.