Neighborhood Choice Aggregation
Challenge: Many communities are choosing Neighborhood Choice Aggregation (CCA) as a locally controlled, cost savings augmentation or alternative to IOU or Public Power energy generation.
CCA allows local communities, independently or united as a group in a microgrid, to develop energy generation and storage infrastructure to augment, or as a substitute for, traditional utility energy supply. Communities can achieve cost savings by creating CCAs, and can also choose to be more aggressive regarding renewables than investor owned or public entities.
Demand Energy Solution: Distributed Demand Shifters™ that charge during off-peak or during alternative source production and discharge when needed.
Demand Shifters can be distributed over a wide range of applications in the CCA environment; wind and solar installations or other alternatives such as bio-fuel installations can be used for generation (or co- or tri-generation), and energy can be warehoused at opportune renewable generation periods for use at peak times.
Demand Shifters could be distributed throughout the CCA system to inventory electricity during times of high generation and low use, used at charging centers for electric vehicles, or when centralized generation is augmented as a warehouse for energy generated at low-demand, low-cost times.
Value: CCA communities save money by financing and developing their own generation and returning the savings to citizens and participants. An aggressive renewable generation and storage strategy could result in substantial savings to the community of users over time.
Neighborhood Choice Aggregation
Distributed Demand Shifters charge during off-peak or during alternative source production and discharge when needed.