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REMONDIS: How a Multi-Site Operator De-Risked Demand Side Response

Why Poland’s municipal services leader started with five plants, and what convinced it to expand.

When you run installations across 50 cities, a new energy programme isn’t one decision. It’s the same decision repeated at every site, with a different operations manager each time asking the same question: what happens if we can’t deliver the reduction?

 

REMONDIS answered that by not committing. In 2020, five plants entered the demand side response programme on a trial basis — enough to learn how the mechanism worked and what it demanded operationally, without exposing the wider Group.

 

Enel X Polska assessed each plant’s reduction capability, set the declared level accordingly, and prepared the sites for the reduction tests that condition both entry and payment. All five passed.

 

Inside the case study

  • The four reasons REMONDIS chose an aggregator over contracting directly with the system operator
  • What the reduction tests involved, and why passing them is a precondition of being paid
  • How demand side response fits alongside group purchasing, tariff optimisation and on-site solar in a wider energy strategy
  • What the group decided to do with the remaining plants

 

The trial has since become a direction for the future:

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Participation in the DSR programme is the next step in giving us the opportunity to reduce purchase prices and minimise the effects of the increase in energy prices in recent years.

Małgorzata Błaszczykiewicz

energy projects, REMONDIS Group

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