Utilities benefit through increased operational efficiency, smart capacity management, additional revenue sources, governmental compliance and a superior consumer experience offering.
The Consert solution enables load balancing, load shifting, load shaping and load shaving to lower energy costs limiting the dependence on market prices. Energy availability is measurable, verifiable and can be managed with multiple levels of granularity (by device type, through load rotation, and by grid area) and can readily operate as a Virtual Power Plant.
With its load resources management solution, Consert makes capacity available as regulation reserves for dispatch in five minutes or less, spinning reserves in 15 minutes or less, and non-spinning reserves in 15 minutes or more.
Operational Efficiency
The Consert system fulfills virtually all existing AMI/AMR/DR functionality more efficiently, providing functions beyond meter reads: asset management, remote SW/FW update, utility configuration, outage detect, tamper detect and more, all of which are executable in real-time.
Transmission and Distribution
Utilities can reduce the energy lost in transmission and distribution with Consert’s Load Resource Management ecosystem and eliminate the need for immediate new transmission and distribution lines or equipment upgrades.
Consumer Experience
The Consert system helps utilities enhance the consumers’ experience. Consumers retain control over changes made by the utility, may opt-out at any time, manage bills, do rate analysis and balance comfort with cost savings. Additionally it gives consumers flexibility to make changes remotely through smart phones, web or manually override an event with their thermostat.
Ancillary Services & Revenue
Consert provides the ability to integrate other multi-services to energy management in the future, such as gas and water metering. The solution is future-ready for electric vehicle charging management, and can generate revenue from integrated features such as soft disconnect, dynamic pricing, and the ability to trade conserved power.
Renewables
Consert allows utilities to claim renewables credits that can be monetized and can facilitate RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standards) compliance.
Additionally, the Consert solution provides a positive Net Present Value (NPV) for utilities without relying on government subsidies or long payback periods. For utilities offering water and/or gas, the Consert solution accommodates meter reading.