For most facilities managers, a primary objective of day-to-day work is to ensure operations run smoothly and productively. For some organizations, even a few seconds of an outage, downtime, or interruption to power can have serious consequences, from threat to human life to lost product and decreased revenue. But many facilities managers know they could leverage energy as more than an overhead cost – and some are successfully turning it into a net new revenue stream.

The PJM Demand Response market will change to a new, single model for the 2020/2021 season. This new structure, Capacity Performance, will replace the previous options within PJM and will expect year-round commitments as opposed to the four-month, “Summer Only” structure that was previously in place. Learn more on today's blog about how this came to be and how you can find opportunity through your Demand Response participation. 

Texas energy consumers were hit hard on Tuesday, August 13, 2019, when high electricity demand, low supply and depleted reserve margins caused power prices across the state to spike to the $9,000 per megawatt-hour price cap. And power customers aren’t in the clear from future hot days creating unfavorable market conditions. To see the big picture, you need to understand the nuances of the Texas energy market.

Power outages are on the rise. Learn strategies that can help protect your business and build an energy-resilient organization.