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What is Demand Response?

Demand Response offers businesses a simple way to earn revenue while helping stabilise the electricity grid during periods of high demand or low renewable output. Flexible demand also reduces reliance on fossil-fuel generation, helping to cut emissions and lower the risk of blackouts. Enrolling in Demand Response programs allows business to get paid for being flexible with energy use - by temporarily reducing consumption or switching to backup power. In doing so, you can earn a share of peak demand energy prices, turning grid support into a valuable new revenue stream.

How does Demand Response work?

Demand Response helps to enable to a more resilient, renewables-based grid by helping to balance energy demand and supply. When demand increases, grid operators can either risk a blackout, activate a fossil fuel-powered peaker plant, or dispatch a Demand Response network. As the global leader in Demand Response, Enel X’s proven dispatch processes are designed to be simple, fast and effective, while prioritising operational needs. Our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) aggregates the flexible demand of businesses to form a reliable, dispatchable asset. Multiple users powering down at once has the same effect on the grid as bringing new generation online.

1. Plan: Enel X collaborates with you to develop a customised energy reduction plan, tailored to your operational needs and business priorities.

2. Activate: When called on by the market operator, our VPP signals participating businesses to initiate their energy reduction plan.

3. Respond: You temporarily power down equipment or switch to onsite backup power sources for a set period.

4. Restore: Once the event concludes, we notify you when it’s safe to resume normal operations.

5. Earn revenue: Enel X pays you a share of energy market earnings and additional incentives for supporting grid stability.

Example of a Demand Response Event

Why Enel X?

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