Demand response

Make money by controlling your business's energy use

Are you able to temporarily reduce your energy demand? Synergy Demand Response is simple and can reward you with regular payments to be available, as well as further payments if you actually reduce demand when required.

Typically when the demand for electricity exceeds the capacity of generators to supply power, power outages can result. In WA this is unlikely due to the requirement to have excess electricity supply available, primarily through peaking power stations.

Building new peaking power stations to handle these occasional periods of excess electricity demand is very expensive. And now, rather than increasing supply during those peak times Synergy has developed Demand Response for a more cost effective solution for the community and an additional reward for you.

How it works

Synergy Demand Response enlists businesses who are able to temporarily reduce their energy consumption by reducing their demand or sourcing power via onsite generation. Synergy works with these businesses to determine how, and how much load-reduction is appropriate.

As a participating business you would be on-call to respond to peak energy ‘events’. In return, you would receive access to energy reporting and forecasting tools, plus regular monthly payments from Synergy, even if you are never called upon to cut your energy use. If you were called upon, you would be paid for the reduction of energy your business delivers during each event.

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Registration

If you’re interested in taking part in Synergy Demand Response, please contact your Synergy Account Manager or call 13 13 54 to register your interest.

Once Synergy has assessed if this product is right for your business, a free Demand Response audit of your business will be conducted to identify the options available to you, the size of these opportunities and, most importantly, your operational requirements. 

Monitoring

The better the information you have available to you regarding your energy usage, the better your opportunity to improve your energy efficiency.

You will have access to near real time, interactive web-based energy reporting and forecasting tools for your operations, provided by the award winning E2M service from Metro Power.

Manage and report

 

Quickly view, manage and report on your current and historical electricity consumption and emissions. You’ll receive a customised report to simplify reporting, compliance, reconciliation and management of your energy needs.

View energy use percentage and emissions.

Forecast

Predictive Energy Management forecasts your estimated energy consumption up to 96 hours in advance, giving you the opportunity to organise operations and production to manage your energy use.

Tailored solutions

A tailored solution can be agreed for your unique circumstances, to achieve a balance that suits you between operational impacts and value for your business.

• Ability to adjust production and processing to shift load outside of reduction events
• Use time to perform maintenance or saftey checks
• Reduce or stop use of non essential loads
• Switch to generator power if available (or scope potential installation)

Activation

When Synergy becomes aware of an approaching event, we will notify you so you can activate your reductions.

In some instances, by prior arrangement, Synergy can notify you and then activate your response remotely on your behalf. Each Demand Response ‘event’ lasts no longer than four hours, with a maximum of eight events per year (maximum of 32 hours per annum).

Benefits

Receive regular payments just for taking part.

Just by being available, you’ll receive regular payments going straight to your bottom-line, reducing your overall energy costs as well as access to the E2M energy monitoring and forecasting tools to help you understand, manage, and report on your energy use.

Becoming involved with Synergy Demand Response can also make an important statement about your company.

Along with reducing your total energy costs, it can be a proactive contribution to ensuring a reliable electricity grid, and affordable power for the entire community, demonstrating not only good business sense but good corporate citizenship.