- A Utility can reduce peak energy demand, saving hundreds of thousands of
dollars a day associated with purchasing energy on the spot market
- Less production, lower emissions and pollutants
- Reduced energy purchases during peak demand
- Improve system reliability
- Provide customers with an attractive programmable thermostat, thereby
increasing the customer's incentive to participate in the program and
lowering recruitment effort and costs
- Customer's use of the programmable thermostat will automatically lower
energy consumption -- whether or not a curtailment event is underway
- Two-way communications link via the Internet to customer's thermostats
provides utilities with the ability to adjust/change the customer's
thermostat control settings during an electrical emergency
- Co-branding opportunities including customized Web page, logo on
thermostat
- Unique opportunity for product differentiation in today's world of
energy deregulation
- Collect energy usage data, which is logged by the EMi on a per
hour basis and made available on demand for utility company analysis
- Track actual curtailment participation time in minutes
- Estimate and report the amount of load reduced or avoided during a
curtailment
- Produce daily load shapes for the customer's HVAC equipment
- Broadcast messages to all thermostats, a utility-defined group of
thermostats or to individual thermostats
- Includes Event Summary Report, Program Summary Report, Network
Communications Report, Customer Participation Report, and Customer History
Report
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