Energy managers get ready to handle the summer strip.ConsumerPowerline has announced that it is actively amassing capacity curtailment commitments from significant energy users in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of metropolitan region in advance of the imminent demand response capacity auction scheduled to close on March 31. A strategic energy asset management firm, ConsumerPowerline aggregates curtailable electrical capacity Noun 1. electrical capacity - an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored capacitance, capacity electrical phenomenon - a physical phenomenon involving electricity and then bids this power into the twice annual Reliability Demand Response Market. The firm pays large end-users who commit to participate. The most lucrative season of this market is the upcoming bid, known as the "summer strip," held by the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO NYISO New York Independent System Operator (operator of the New York electric power grid) ). The firm will aggregate a significant portion of its portfolio to bid into the 2006 summer demand response market. ConsumerPowerline's represented load will be more than 50 percent larger than the company's 2005 representation; the current ConsumerPowerline portfolio represents more than 4% of the city's entire electricity load. Twice a year, in the spring and the fall, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. commercial, residential and industrial property owners and managers can volunteer, in advance, to curtail energy consumption during times of a potential grid crisis. On extremely hot or cold days during the year, the NYISO can call upon these buildings, with a day's notice, to scale back their energy use. Examples of tactics employed to curtail energy use include: pre-cooling, switching to on-site generational resources, and the shutting off of non-essential equipment.. Among those customers that ConsumerPowerline will represent in the upcoming auction are Fortune 500 companies Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. , Starwood Hotels and Macys Department Stores This is a list of department stores. In the case of department store groups the location of the flagship store is given. This list does not include large specialist stores, which sometimes resemble department stores. along with some of the nation's largest commercial, residential, retail and institutional property owners and managers. The energy auctions run by the NYISO, including the Emergency Demand Response Program and ICAP (1) (Internet Content Adaptation Protocol) A high-level protocol for requesting services from an Internet-based server. iCAP provides a common format for requesting services using standard HTTP messaging. Special Case Resources program, are intended to provide system operators with additional resources that can be deployed in the event of energy shortages to maintain the reliability of the system. |
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