Houston Chronicle: AEMA Calls for Demand Response for Consumers in Texas
The Houston Chronicle featured AEMA in a story about a call for additional demand response to benefit consumers and the electric grid in Texas. The full story can be found here and below. BUSINESS Group urges more rewards for power savers The approach, called demand response, is limited in Texas By Ryan Holeywell January 17, 2015 […]
AEMA Urges ERCOT to Focus on Expanding Demand Response
The following statement was issued by the Advanced Energy Management Alliance (AEMA) in response to the report released Tuesday by the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) that analyzed the impact of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations (including the Clean Power Plan) on Texas. The report can be found on ERCOT’s website: http://ercot.com/content/news/presentations/2014/Impacts%20of%20Environmental%20Regulations%20in%20the%20ERCOT%20Region.pdf AEMA Chairman […]
Demand Response Exceeds Expectations in Texas During January Grid Emergency
WASHINGTON, DC (April 7, 2014) – In a report to its Board of Directors today, The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) announced that demand response providers performed better than expected—and in excess of their contracted commitments–during a powerful winter storm, known as the Polar Vortex, that caused outages at several power plants on January […]