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USE YOUR BACKUP POWER SYSTEM TO EARN REWARDS!
As a Generac product owner, you can now use your home standby generator or PWRcell® solar + battery storage system to earn financial rewards, help stabilize the electrical grid and increase your community’s protection against power outages.
Virtual Power Plant Programs: Creating a Smart Grid for the Future
Extreme weather conditions and surges in electricity use during peak times can increase the electricity demand. This demand sometimes exceeds the available supply, putting a significant strain on the electrical grid. Increased stress on the grid can result in community-wide power outages that affect your ability to complete everyday tasks like filling up on gas, withdrawing cash from the bank, or going grocery shopping. It can also lead to an increase in your monthly energy bill.
To combat the shortcomings in our modern power grid, Generac has committed to investing in innovative “smart grid” solutions to equalize energy supply and demand.
As a Generac product owner, you can participate in a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) Program that uses distributed energy resources, like generators and battery storage systems, to stabilize the grid during peak demand.
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS FOR GENERATORS:
HERE'S HOW IT WORKS FOR SOLAR + BATTERY BACKUP:
Climate Change and the aging electrical grid are leading to more power outages that are longer lasting and create extreme inconveniences for families and businesses.
Now, you can be a part of the solution together with Generac.
CREATE GRID STABILITY
Each year, the weather gets more severe, fires become more regular, and electricity costs continue to rise. The current power grid is reliant on fossil fuels and susceptible to outages. Alternative forms of energy have become more critical than ever.
That’s why Generac set out to find a new energy technology solution…to create a smart grid for the future. As a Generac product owner, you can join this innovative solution to create grid stability and energy independence.
AVOID ELECTRICITY PRICE INCREASES
Before the development of VPPs, energy providers relied on expensive, CO2-emitting backup power plants to supply the power needed to meet excess demand.
By joining a VPP Program, you’re reducing your dependence on the electrical grid, helping eliminate the need for new backup power plants that can contribute to climate change and higher electricity costs.
SUPPORT THE LOCAL COMMUNITY
A power outage can cause significant disruption to your routine. Community-wide outages affect your ability to complete everyday tasks like filling up on gas, withdrawing cash from the bank, or grocery shopping.
By combining distributed energy resources, including your Generac system, VPPs can help prevent outages, ensuring the businesses you rely upon daily remain operational.
GET REWARDED
In addition to the peace of mind you receive from Generac products, you can obtain additional returns on your investment. Explore program incentives available in your area today.
Units Equipped with Smart Grid Ready Technology Include*:
Generac home standby generators
Generac commercial and industrial generators
PWRcell® solar + battery storage systems
*Models manufactured before 2018 may not include Smart Grid Ready technology. Visit the FAQs section to see a complete list of applicable models or to learn how to upgrade your system.
REVOLUTIONIZING THE 21ST-CENTURY ELECTRICAL GRID
The grid is changing. That means our traditional approaches to effectively managing the grid are being challenged. The resources comprising the new grid are becoming more intelligent, distributed, and sustainable; however, old grid management systems lack the sophistication to manage this mounting complexity caused by distributed energy resources (DERs).
To survive in the distributed energy world, energy service providers and utilities must adapt—their thinking, models, and expectations. Grid operators need partners who offer the flexibility to respond to changing needs in real-time and who offer the reliability to manage the inherent complexity of this new grid ecosystem. Most importantly, achieving a sustainable and reliable grid with core technology helps simplify the transition to a distributed grid.
With Generac Grid Services’ intelligent software, grid operators get the flexibility to adapt to changing system conditions in real-time. We help energy retailers increase revenue and customer satisfaction by better managing the escalating complexities of energy assets and market opportunities. We help utilities by providing the advanced technology needed to ensure the operational reliability of the grid. Whatever your focus, Generac Grid Services’ suite of solutions gives you more control with less hassle. It’s energy in balance.
Generac Grid Services Technology
Generac Grid Services’ award-winning technology goes far beyond load control, demand response, and auto-DR. It raises the bar to a new level, with features like closed-loop, real-time optimization of DERs, and bi-directional wholesale transactions to add and subtract power at precisely the right time and place it’s needed – or not needed.
Sitting between a utility’s grid management system and distributed energy resources, the Concerto platform enables utilities, grid operators, energy retailers, and energy traders to successfully navigate the business opportunities and challenges inherent in a more distributed power grid.
Concerto provides real-time control and optimization of an unlimited variety and number of DERs. It leverages these resources as flexible energy assets used at all levels of the power delivery system -- from end customers to grid operators and everyone in between.
