With Consert, consumers have the opportunity to trim energy consumption by 15 to 20 percent and businesses by 8 percent or more. When multiplied by thousands of installations sites, the results equal dramatic savings for the utilities. What’s more, Consert adds valuable services such as time-of-use and critical peak pricing, aids in tracking and monetizing renewable energy and carbon credits, and helps reduce utility operating costs to preserve and enhance cash flow.
Concerted Utility Cost Savings
Consert gives energy conservation the attributes of generation by converting electric consumption in homes and small businesses into clean sources of capacity and energy reserves for utilities.
- Access spinning reserves at approximately 50% of operating costs with zero emissions
- Reduce generation capital expenditures to under $200/kW
- Operational savings;
- perform all existing AMI/AMR functions more efficiently
- perform advanced DR events
- remote software and firmware updates
- outage detection
- line loss reduction
- conservation voltage reduction
Newly Realized Revenues
Consert provides both the actionable data feeds and effective control mechanisms that are needed by utilities to take advantage of untapped revenue streams as well as emerging revenue opportunities.
- Ability to implement time-of-use or alternative pricing programs
- Measurable and verifiable methods to aggregate and verify carbon savings at device level generates the world’s most accurate carbon credits
- Ability to integrate other multi-services, such as gas and water metering
- System is future-ready for management of intermittent energy resources such as solar panels, wind and electric vehicles