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Buffalo, NY, June 10, 2008 -- Energy Curtailment Specialists Inc. (ECS) announced that it has signed a demand response agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE).
The agreement is a year-round contract to provide 40 MW of on-call demand reductions to SCE in both the winter and summer months. A characteristic of ECS' program is that it requires day-ahead notice for customers and caps the number of hours customers can be called upon. ECS has already launched two demand response programs in both the Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) territories. One month after launching its PG&E program, ECS' customers contributed over 60 percent of available demand response in PG&E's AMP program, with five other providers combining to account for the remaining 40 percent. The new agreement with SCE is still subject to final approval by the California Public Utilities Commission.
ECS will aggregate load curtailment from industrial, institutional, and commercial customers within SCE's service territory. Unlike most other demand response service providers, ECS typically does not remotely control a customer's site, but allows customers the choice of how load curtailment will occur at their facilities.
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