EnerNOC can provide service to military facilities
EnerNOC Inc., a Boston company that remotely manages and reduces energy consumption for power grid operators, said it has been given clearance to provide its services to federal and military facilities throughout the United States.
Specifically, EnerNOC said in a press release that "it has been selected by the Defense
Energy Support Center (DESC) as an approved demand response provider."
EnerNOC uses technology to automate the so-called demand response process for electricity utilities by signing up commercial and industrial companies to programs that reward the companies for conserving energy; during peak demand periods, such as hot summer days, EnerNOC uses its technology to remotely curtail the electricity consumption of companies that have signed onto the program as a way to lower the likelihood of brownouts and outages.
EnerNOC said in today's press release: "By enrolling in EnerNOC’s demand response network, individual federal and military facilities will earn a credit toward their electricity bills. In addition, each site that participates will have basic access to EnerNOC’s PowerTrak energy management platform. PowerTrak enables users to view and analyze their energy consumption data in near real-time and track efficiency gains, resulting in the ability to take additional, targeted measures to reduce overall energy consumption and costs."
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
