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Voltus's response to California Governor Newsom's state of emergency declaration.
In honor of Voltus's five-year anniversary, CEO and Co-founder Gregg Dixon shares five characteristics that make a Voltus leader.
Voltus CEO Gregg Dixon provides data and insight into how distributed energy resources are helping to accelerate one of the greatest industry transformations in human history.
Everything you need to know about FERC Order 2222-B, passed on Thursday 6/17.
Is our energy system still serving the public good?
Voltus CEO Gregg Dixon dives into some of the exciting data and insights that define this critical moment in our energy transition.
Voltus expands energy efficiency capacity across Ontario.
When it comes to employee satisfaction, our chief goal at Voltus is incredibly simple. We want working at Voltus to be the best professional experience our team members have ever had! Read about how we maintain a happy and productive team.
FERC Order 2222-A unleashes the power of demand response, hitting the fast forward button on our nation’s clean energy transition.
A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Voltus President Matt Plante reflects on how Voltus has achieved success despite challenging circumstances.
In honor of International Women’s Day, we’re featuring three outstanding Women of Voltus. These women were selected by their fellow Voltans based on their bright, gritty, and good achievements at work and beyond.
Voltus's Kelly Yazdani discusses four elements of our culture embodied by all Voltan leaders.
The three central US power grids, ERCOT, SPP, and MISO, which represent 270,000 MWs of electricity demand (34% of total US demand), faced catastrophic power outages last week.
That’s the value of economic loss occurring in the ERCOT region of Texas right now, based on the load sector weighted average of the Value of Lost Load (VOLL), the result of a study commissioned to London Economics by ERCOT in 2013.
Ontario’s demand response market has grown for the sixth consecutive year and Voltus is continuing to grow with it. Voltus is now the 3rd largest demand response aggregator in the region.
Reflections from Voltus's Stephanie Hendricks, U.S. Navy veteran, on this Veterans Day 2020.
For certain businesses that can provide fast-response load curtailment, Operating Reserves (OR) is a better alternative, resulting in lower net electricity costs without the frequent hassles of economic curtailment.
We founded Voltus with a clear vision – to become the world’s leading provider of demand response. We bring this vision to fruition each day by turning large energy users’ behind-the-meter assets into cash-producing distributed energy resources. Today, Voltus is the fastest growing demand response provider of all time.
This past Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) ruled to unify the treatment of distributed energy resources.
John Arcona reflects on his experience as a Voltus intern.
Businesses can now earn up to $70K/MW-year for less than 2 hours of annual demand reduction.
We’re proud to announce that Voltus will begin recognizing and celebrating Juneteenth as a company holiday, and encouraging Voltans to do with Juneteenth what matters most to them.
In this segment of our Bright, Gritty, and Good Vlog series, we take a closer look at the remote office set-ups of four Voltans, discover what motivates them, and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of remote working.
If you are a multi-site demand response customer, you can financially benefit from portfolio aggregation versus single site nomination. Let’s show you how by asking a simple math question.
Nearly 140 demand response programs exist across North America. Many of these programs are offered exclusively by Voltus while others aren’t offered by Voltus at all. What’s that now?
The gross-up is industry-speak for the transmission loss factor and operating reserve margin that is applied to electricity demand in wholesale power markets. These concepts impact the value of demand response resources in these same markets.
Voltus secures an agreement with Cape Light Compact to deliver demand response to commercial, institutional, and industrial customers in Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard.
Demand response is needed more than ever to deliver on-peak capacity, to help tamp down energy prices during grid constraints, and to help balance the grid 24/7/365 in real-time.
A response to COVID-19 from Voltus CEO Gregg Dixon.
Using a bit of provocation, last month we declared that PJM Demand Response is Dead! The caveat here is that PJM Demand Response (as you’ve known it) is Dead, with changes to the Emergency Load Response Program (ELRP) that make it much more difficult for customers to perform and, ultimately, earn cash (e.g., a 30 minute response with 365/24/7 availability doesn’t work for most).
Voltus's Director of Marketing Kelly Yazdani reflects on her professional journey and how she landed at Voltus.
Take a dive into in-market vs. out-of-market demand response.
Week one of our multi-week Vlog series, dedicated to helping customers turn their operational flexibility into the most cash possible.
Our experts want to help you with a single new year’s resolution: double your dollars in demand response in 2020 with these five tips:
Imagine reading that headline as you land in Detroit Metro an hour before a big meeting in Ann Arbor. Your heart sinks knowing you might need to wait in line for a taxi and likely be late for your meeting. Why would Michigan decide to limit your access to an innovation that you’ve become universally accustomed to using every time you arrive in any airport around the country?
Our experts want to help you with a single new year’s resolution: double your dollars in demand response in 2019 with these five tips:
In the wake of Entergy astroturfing the citizens of New Orleans, it not only continues to attempt an end-around to influence the New Orleans City Council by pressuring non-profits that receive Entergy support, but it has come out swinging against the better alternative to its $210 million power plant: a virtual power plant. We have the upshot.
Today, Voltus announces the launch of CashDash, the world’s largest database of demand response programs. The purpose of CashDash is to identify every opportunity for large energy consumers to monetize operational flexibility by simply entering zip codes and load reduction capabilities for each site.
Voltus just exceeded 1.21 gigawatts of demand response under management. What can 1.21 gigawatts do for us? Read about the impact here.
See how DR stacks up against solar in the Hawkeye state.
VoltusFest Pittsburgh – a perfect backdrop for our team to learn, grow, and Voltan-teer. We challenged ourselves to not only to make our conference as green as possible, but also to do some service and leave the city cleaner than how we found it.
As if reminding us of our favorite quote from George Orwell’s Animal Farm, PJM and its Market Monitor argue that seasonal demand response (DR) and renewable resources would suppress capacity prices because they would only have to deliver for part of the year. Yet PJM bills its peak demand charge (which can amount to as much as 30% of an electricity bill) on the highest five hours of demand during the year!
“Can you give me an example of when you’ve ‘spoken truth to power’ either in your professional or personal life and what that experience was like?” That’s the final question Matt and I ask any candidate wanting to be part of the Voltus team.
A little over a year ago, I posted about how cleantech has a pipeline problem with recruiting female candidates – a problem that perpetuates itself because the status quo continues to be a male-dominated industry. At Voltus, we are committed to making targeted efforts to attract women to the industry.
Let’s get to work on our New Year’s resolution: helping you double your dollars in demand response in 2018.
FERC passed a ruling on December 1 allowing Energy Efficiency Resources (EERs – think LED upgrades) to get wholesale capacity market credit without encumbrance from a RERRA. What does this mean?
Why signing the “Add Back Attestation” in Pennsylvania is not in the best economic interest of customers.
At Voltus, we know we need to proactively recruit female candidates. We’ve done a decent job of improving the number of female candidates we attract, but we need to do much, much better. Please share your stories, feedback, and advice with us, send this around to your female friends and colleagues, and come talk to us!
Today, Voltus got a little pocket money. The back story is pretty simple: a few of us put our nose to the grindstone for a year, built a great technology, signed up a bunch of customers, generated profits, and attracted the interest of investors who really liked the focused business model we developed to attack a huge, underpenetrated market where the competition wasn’t innovating or fully serving customers. But what’s the secret to our success and how do we plan to extend this success with $10 million in the bank?
At Voltus, we hire people who are bright, gritty, and good. Take a peek into who we look to hire, and why – with an emphasis on the element most difficult to spot: good.
How the success of demand response helps us unlock the much larger value of energy efficiency for industrial, commercial, and institutional customers.
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