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EnerNOC, ConsumerPowerline tap Ontario DR program

Posted on April 05, 2008

Ontario has a number of demand-response programs in place to meet its aggressive targets for what could loosely be called peak conservation. The latest is called DR3, and it's what you could call the highest quality demand response -- contractual obligations for aggregators to reduce load demand when asked to by the province's electricity system operator.About 10 aggregators have applied to participate in the program, and last week Enernoc and ConsumerPowerline were the first to tout contracts with the Ontario Power Authority. Both companies, and any other DR3 participant, basically sign a fiv...

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conservation , energy consumption , energy management , investment , ontario
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