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Zero-CapEx building automation with demand response
Leverage Enel’s innovative financing option, FlexUp, to deploy a building management system (BMS) with no out-of-pocket expense – and boost your demand response earnings while streamlining your facility operations through automation.
What Is FlexUp?
Unlock new revenue and efficiencies with building automation – no CapEx required
For certain companies, participating in demand response can be highly labor-intensive without automation. Manual curtailment is inefficient, hampers revenue potential, and can even prevent participation. In addition, companies are leaving money on the table by losing access to lucrative fast-response and high-frequency programs. What if you could participate in demand response and not even have to lift a finger?
A building management system (BMS) can transform a company’s operations. They can streamline and simplify their demand response curtailment strategies with automation, increasing their ability to participate and earn revenue – all while leveraging automation to simplify their facility’s operational processes and manage their energy more efficiently and effectively. And through Enel, companies can deploy a BMS with no upfront cost.
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How It Works
How does Enel’s FlexUp financing solution work?
Enel North America’s innovative financing solution, FlexUp, leverages the value of demand response to enable building automation. Here’s how FlexUp works:
- Enel pays the upfront costs of a BMS, so you have zero out-of-pocket costs.
- Enel works directly with Honeywell to install the BMS at your facility – if you already have a provider, Enel will work directly with them.
- You pay back the BMS costs through your demand response earnings until the entire system is paid off, which typically takes two years or less.
This near-zero risk financing option offers significant benefits – you can own a building management system and reap the benefits of building automation immediately at your facility, before earning additional revenue with demand response.
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Benefits
Building automation offers value to both demand response and your facility’s efficiency
Improve energy efficiency
Centralize energy management and proactively manage building infrastructure and processes to use energy more efficiently.
Drive energy cost savings
Automate monitoring and control of energy assets to optimize energy usage, minimize waste, and reduce costs.
Speed up operations and response time
Remove the manual effort involved in managing energy assets across a facility’s energy infrastructure.
Access new lucrative demand response programs
Increase your demand response earnings by automating your curtailment to participate in fast-response programs.
Improve demand response dispatch performance
Respond promptly and with minimal effort to improve performance and enable more consistent revenue generation.
Reduce the need for manual intervention
With automation, employees can remain focused on their day-to-day tasks, even during demand response events.
Recommended For
What types of companies should consider building automation?
Many companies today are adding building automation or already leveraging it to optimize their energy usage while minimizing the effort required to operate. Here are a few examples of industries that are finding value in automation and the types of assets and processes they are automating:
Cold storage operations: automation monitors and controls fridge temperatures
Commercial offices and retail stores: a BMS helps manage items like lighting and HVAC, all with easy-to-use controls
Water management: automation helps to control municipal water pumps, including WTP and WWTP systems, in addition to well pumps
Farming and agriculture: automation is essential to easily control pumps and lights that may need to be turned off quickly, and other water-related activities
Industrial organizations: automation controls production or processing lines at industrial sites
Food manufacturing: building automation controls production or processing lines
Why Enel North America
We are your partner for building automation and demand response
Supporting the energy transition with more flexible energy usage
Enel, the world leader in demand response, is partnering with Honeywell, a global company serving customers with renowned automation systems, to bring an integrated building automation and demand response offering to commercial and industrial companies in the United States and Canada. Working together, Enel North America and Honeywell are supporting a more sustainable electric grid by promoting demand response program participation and more efficient energy usage. Through the FlexUp offering, Enel North America and Honeywell empower companies to make demand response participation effortless and more lucrative while simultaneously optimizing their facility’s energy infrastructure and operational processes.
We are uniquely positioned to cover the cost of your building management system
Our partnership with Honeywell allows us to deliver a solution that combines energy efficiency, energy flexibility, and revenue generation potential. By leveraging the value of demand response, our FlexUp financing offering offers a zero-out-of-pocket way to upgrade or install a new building management system. From the minute the building management system is installed or upgraded, you own it and realize the benefits of the system. Your future demand response earnings pay back the system costs, providing a near-zero risk financing option.
Personalized energy curtailment strategies that leverage automation
Enel drives bottom-line impact through revenue assurance and maximization of your energy infrastructure. We work with you to design a demand response curtailment strategy based on your energy assets and industry-specific operations. Our plans maximize demand response earnings while minimizing operational disruption. We will work with you to leverage your building management system to orchestrate demand response participation and identify ways to reduce non-essential energy without affecting business operations, comfort, or product quality.
Industry knowledge
Our team of experts helps you navigate the complex energy landscape. With 20+ years of experience navigating the intricacies and opportunities in energy markets, our expertise enables you to capitalize on demand response programs and maximize value from your assets. We provide more access to demand response programs worldwide than any other provider. We make demand response program participation easy and provide the expertise you need to drive maximum value from your energy flexibility. And as part of our FlexUp offering, our team of experts will help you identify opportunities for automation to increase your demand response earnings.
Why Enel North America
We are your partner for building automation and demand response
Enel, the world leader in demand response, is partnering with Honeywell, a global company serving customers with renowned automation systems, to bring an integrated building automation and demand response offering to commercial and industrial companies in the United States and Canada. Working together, Enel North America and Honeywell are supporting a more sustainable electric grid by promoting demand response program participation and more efficient energy usage. Through the FlexUp offering, Enel North America and Honeywell empower companies to make demand response participation effortless and more lucrative while simultaneously optimizing their facility’s energy infrastructure and operational processes.
Our partnership with Honeywell allows us to deliver a solution that combines energy efficiency, energy flexibility, and revenue generation potential. By leveraging the value of demand response, our FlexUp financing offering offers a zero-out-of-pocket way to upgrade or install a new building management system. From the minute the building management system is installed or upgraded, you own it and realize the benefits of the system. Your future demand response earnings pay back the system costs, providing a near-zero risk financing option.
Enel drives bottom-line impact through revenue assurance and maximization of your energy infrastructure. We work with you to design a demand response curtailment strategy based on your energy assets and industry-specific operations. Our plans maximize demand response earnings while minimizing operational disruption. We will work with you to leverage your building management system to orchestrate demand response participation and identify ways to reduce non-essential energy without affecting business operations, comfort, or product quality.
Our team of experts helps you navigate the complex energy landscape. With 20+ years of experience navigating the intricacies and opportunities in energy markets, our expertise enables you to capitalize on demand response programs and maximize value from your assets. We provide more access to demand response programs worldwide than any other provider. We make demand response program participation easy and provide the expertise you need to drive maximum value from your energy flexibility. And as part of our FlexUp offering, our team of experts will help you identify opportunities for automation to increase your demand response earnings.
