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New York, NY, Dec. 15, 2006 -- The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) announced that ConsumerPowerline (CPLN) has been awarded the single largest portion of its Aggregated Load Reduction Program grant. The program is designed to help New York City increase the local power grid's reliability in times of stress, specifically in areas served by Consolidated Edison (ConEd) and enable the city's commercial, industrial and residential buildings to partake in additional energy efficiency programs.
According to NYSERDA, ConsumerPowerline was awarded nearly $8.4 million for the three-year life of the program. Under the terms of the award, ConsumerPowerline is now responsible for managing 14 megawatts of electricity. The entire program is valued at $27 million.
The Aggregated Load Reduction Program provides incentives for the following project areas:
* Permanent efficiency -- The goal of this piece of the program is to reduce a buildings' consumption of energy on a day-in-day out basis. Additionally, allowing buildings to permanently reduce summer peak demand. To accomplish this, CPLN will provide buildings with engineering, procurement and project management services along with overseeing the installation of capital equipment.
* Curtailment/shifting for demand response -- A core element of the overall load reduction program is the provisioning of demand response services, the selling of excess energy back to the electricity gird during an energy emergency. These services include engineering services, procurement and project management services and installation of capital equipment, and development of a curtailment plan.
* Distributed generation -- This NYSERDA program will fund the creation of new distributed generation resources or on-site generation resources in the region as well as for the retrofitting of existing emergency generators to make them more efficient and environmentally friendly. ConsumerPowerline will provision new generators, provide metering, testing and tuning of these emergency generators, and will undertake improvements to reduce environmental impacts.
* Interval metering -- The final element to the program that ConsumerPowerline will be addressing is the installation and monitoring of interval meters. These meters track energy consumption on an hourly basis, and report back to ConEd on a specific building's actual consumption during moments of grid stress.
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