What is Wholesale Demand Response?
In today's volatile market, the National Electricity Market (NEM) urgently needs new forms of power capacity to balance renewables and to maintain a reliable and secure electricity grid. Wholesale Demand Response allows large energy users to offer demand flexibility via our Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to provide critical grid firming capacity. This puts downward pressure on spiking electricity prices and earns participating businesses new revenue.
$200M
paid to customers in Australia & NZ
8.2 GW
global demand response capacity
150+
customers in Australia & NZ
Get paid for your flexibility
There are multiple ways to participate in the wholesale market, from providing the electricity of onsite backup generators to load reduction under the Wholesale Demand Response Mechanism. We advise our customers on the mechanism that best meets their site’s operational characteristics, commercial requirements, and sustainability objectives. Our customers earn a recurring new revenue stream, which can offset rising energy costs.

The business opportunity
DR is increasingly valuable
The cost of power in the NEM is highly concentrated in critical hours. Wholesale Demand Response allows businesses to capture this value, which translates into a material reduction in the annual cost of powering their business. And as coal stations retire and renewable power continues to grow, the value of demand response is predicted to increase.

The WDRM is bankable
Unlike other mechanisms such as the Reliability and Reserve Trader (RERT) that rely on tenders, the WDRM is a permanent mechanism of the NEM, meaning businesses can count on an ability to participate and earn revenue year-round, year after year.

Wholesale DR is low risk
Wholesale Demand Response allows businesses to offer demand flexibility to the market while still buying their power through a traditional fixed price supply contract. This means you can participate without taking on any new risk or volatility in the price you pay for power. It works independently from your retail contract, allowing you to keep earning money from VPP participation each year, regardless of your retail supplier.

Participation can be flexible
While Demand Response is valuable, your core operations come first. Your participation can be designed around your operational priorities. Put simply, the market will take what you can give it. At Enel X, we understand your operations and then to design a plan which will maximise your earnings subject to your operational limits.

Our services
Our market-leading and comprehensive service offering includes:
DR evaluation
Technical and operational DR evaluation
Business case
Revenue planning and business case
Enablement
Metering and controls (at our expense)
Connection
Connection to our market-leading VPP platform

Compliance
Market compliance and risk management
NOC Support
24/7 Network Operations Center bidding and dispatch management
Trading
Trading and co-optimisation of DR value
Why Enel X?
We are the global market leader
We are the global market leader
We operate the largest VPP in Australia
We operate the largest VPP in Australia
Businesses trust our proven track record as the market leader. We deliver the most DR revenue, while properly prioritising and protecting your core operations, and ensuring full choice for your retail power supply.
- >10 years of DR experience in Australia
- >A$200M in DR revenue delivered to ANZ customers over the past 10 years
- First VPP to enter the FCAS market and 90% of aggregated C&I DR resources in FCAS today
- Mission Critical Technology Innovation, 2020 award for DR in the IT sector (Datacenter Dynamics)
Global innovation, local execution
Global innovation, local execution
We bring our global leading platforms to local markets. We unlock new opportunities to decarbonise, digitalise and electrify your energy use in ways that will help grow your business.
We are recognised as a leading global integrator of B2B battery storage solutions (Guidehouse Insights). We are also growing our world-leading electric bus platform, with 2800 electric buses served today, and ambitions to have 13,000 electric buses on the road by 2024.
