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Rocky Mountain Power Demand Response
Earn payments for reducing energy consumption
Enel and Rocky Mountain Power have exclusively partnered to offer commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations as well as agricultural pumps incentive payments for participating in demand response programs to maintain a reliable and cost-effective electric grid. In these programs, large energy consumers can earn payments for making targeted energy reductions or temporarily turning off pumps during periods of peak demand.
Enel, the world leader in demand response programs, connects large energy consumers to these programs and ensures that they can maximize their payments while keeping disruption within their facilities to a minimum. Meanwhile, Rocky Mountain Power can make the grid more efficient and continue to keep prices among the lowest in the nation.
Rocky Mountain Power demand response program options
C&I demand response program overview
In this program, commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations can earn payments for reductions during periods of high demand.
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Advanced Notice Dispatch |
Real-Time Dispatch |
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Program period |
Year-round |
Year-round |
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Program hours |
24x7x365 |
24x7x365 |
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Response types |
Ancillary services |
Auto-curtailment |
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Dispatch alerts |
At least 7 minutes before an event |
At least 30 seconds before an event |
| Event duration |
At least 30 seconds |
3 – 7 minutes |
Irrigation Load Control (ILC) demand response program overview
In this program, you can earn payments for temporarily turning off agricultural pumps during periods of high demand.
| Program period |
Monday of the week including June 1 until Friday of the week including August 15 |
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Program hours |
2 PM – 9 PM MT, Monday – Friday |
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Advanced notification |
2 hours (minimum) |
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Event duration |
Typically 2 – 4 hours |
Rocky Mountain Power demand response program FAQs
C&I Demand Response
Demand response programs provide an opportunity for commercial, institutional, and industrial organizations to earn incentive payments while helping maintain a reliable electric grid. When there are unexpected events impacting demand for electricity, Rocky Mountain Power dispatches their demand response network, which is made up of local organizations that have agreed to reduce energy usage. Program participants earn incentive payments for agreeing to be on standby and for curtailing electricity consumption.
- Maximize payments to your bottom line: Enel manages your participation from start to finish, ensuring you earn the highest possible financial reward. Participants can earn incentives up to $175/kW.
- Improve energy costs: Help Rocky Mountain Power provide some of the lowest cost electricity in the nation.
- Support your community: Your participation helps maintain reliable electricity in your community.
Enel makes participation easy. We take care of the complex details so you can stay focused on running your business.
- Our expert team will work with you to identify your energy reduction potential and create a strategy that delivers maximum value with minimum impact on your operations. We outline these measures in a detailed Energy Reduction Plan.
- In some cases, we install necessary metering devices at your facility to establish communication with our Network Operations Center (NOC), so we can monitor your energy consumption levels in real time.
- Your site is then enrolled and ready to respond when a dispatch begins. Provided your site has Enel metering, log into our app at any time during a dispatch to view your real-time performance.
- Throughout the process, we fully manage enrollment, measurement, verification and payments on your behalf.
- Notification: When Rocky Mountain Power calls an event, they dispatch the Enel network into action. Enel will notify you via email, phone or SMS, depending on your preferences, to inform you when the dispatch will begin.
- Response: At the start of the dispatch, your facility will reduce its electricity usage according to your predetermined Energy Reduction Plan – either manually or, if requested, automatically through the NOC.
- Support: Before, during, and after a dispatch, our NOC remains in communication with your facility. Our staff is available 24x7x365, supporting you to ensure that you achieve the highest possible levels of performance and payments.
Enel has extensive experience creating energy reduction strategies that work within the operational limitations of a wide variety of facilities, including cold storage, manufacturing, food processing, universities, malls, office buildings and more. We can also help to implement full control systems that allow your electric load to be toggled remotely.
Common reduction examples include:
- Modify manufacturing processes
- Adjust HVAC equipment
- Dial back pumps
- Change settings in industrial freezers
- Reduce non-essential lighting
Customers often facilitate dispatch participation by simply shifting many of their energy-intensive processes by a few hours. Ask us about our experience working with customers like you.
Our experts are standing by to speak with you about your organization’s demand response opportunity. Submit your information here to get a conversation started with our team.
Irrigation Load Control (ILC) Demand Response
Load control dispatches are called when Rocky Mountain Power expects electricity demand to surge. Irrigation Load Control (ILC) participants provide a critical resource in managing peak demand, which helps keep the grid reliable and energy costs down for everyone.
In the event of a load control dispatch, you will be notified via our automated system. You may receive email, phone, and SMS messages based upon your preferences, which you can view in the Enel application. To add or change your site’s contact information, please contact Enel Support at support.enelx@enel.com or +1 888 363 7662.
Dispatches usually occur between 5 PM – 8 PM MT. Dispatches typically last approximately 4 hours, and we see an average of 8 dispatches each season. Enel provides 2 hours notice. Please call us as soon as possible if you need to opt-out a pump.
You can view energy usage for each pump enrolled in the program during and after load control dispatches by logging into the Enel application and selecting “Active Dispatches” in the drop-down menu.
A pump is credited for performance if it is fully shut down for the duration of a load control dispatch.
Please contact Enel Support at +1 888 363 7662 or support.enelx@enel.com at least two hours prior to the dispatch start time to opt-out a pump. While there is no limit on the number of times you may opt-out a pump each season, it will impact your payments.
Regardless, Enel will never charge a direct financial penalty for non-participation. We understand that growing conditions can change dramatically from year to year. If needed, you may also opt-out a pump for a full season, and then return to the program next the following year, if conditions change.
If you choose not to shut down your pumps during a load control dispatch, the impact on your payment will be proportional to the total number of load control dispatches this season. For example, if you participate in half of the dispatches this summer, your payment will be half of what it would be if you participate in all of the dispatches. More information about how your dispatch participation affects payment can be downloaded here.
Yes, it will. We understand that irrigators need to arrange watering schedules around dispatches, and you will not be penalized if you do not run your pumps at all during the day of a dispatch.
Our experts are standing by to speak with you about your organization’s demand response opportunity. Submit your information here to get a conversation started with our team.
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