The State of Illinois follows Pennsylvania and New Mexico to include Demand Response along with its Renewable Portfolio Standards, thereby not only promoting growth of renewable sources, like wind, but also addressing the need for large additions of new power generation by attacking ever increasing peak demand on the grid. The Illinois Sustainable Energy Plan represents the culmination of work by the Governor's Energy Task Force led by the Lt. Governor Pat Quinn along with years of work by environmental and consumer groups working with participants from the Green Energy industry, like Electric City.
Electric City's system, called VNPP, will allow utilities like ComEd in Chicago, Xcel in Denver and PacifiCorp in Utah, to remotely control a wide range of commercial, industrial and government lighting systems over a managed and secure IP network. Through the use of the EnergySaverT/GlobalCommanderR system, any participating utility will be able to reduce electric capacity requirements during periods of peak demand, providing nearly instantaneous control, measurement and verification of load reduction. The 50 MW system in Chicago and the 27 MW system in Utah represent two of the largest deployments of demand control technology in the nation and are expected to incorporate roughly 2,000 to 2,500 EnergySaverT systems.
