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Responding to California’s Electric Capacity Shortfall Through Market Access Programs
California faces a forecasted 4.4 GW electric capacity shortfall for 2022-2023.
This webinar will explain how the state is responding to this emergency by deploying virtual power plants to shift and reduce peak loads through the CPUC’s performance-based market access programs, based on Recurve's FLEXmarket.
FLEXmarket programs create a new opportunity for energy efficiency and demand response businesses to unlock value and help decarbonize and save the grid through local action delivered to customers. By paying directly for outcomes at the meter to the aggregator, these performance-based markets align incentives and dramatically reduce red tape, allowing a broad range of companies to innovate on business models and solutions.
By the end of this webinar, you’ll understand how FLEXmarkets work, why California adopted the market access approach, and why demand response and efficiency are more valuable than ever for the grid, customers, and aggregators.
Webinar Speakers:
Recurve CEO Matt Golden
Matt is committed to bringing demand flexibility in the built environment to scale as a grid and climate resource, an entrepreneur, policy advocate, and efficiency agitator. He has made presentations on emerging demand flexibility markets to the US Senate Finance Committee, at COP 21, and to the UK Parliament, among many others.
As the CEO and founder of Recurve, Matt has worked with his team for years to develop a scalable platform for measuring and deploying revenue-grade demand flexibility (behind the meter EE, DR, storage, and EVs) using open source calculations, smart meter data, and parallel cloud computing. Recurve works with various utilities, government agencies, and private efficiency providers to track resource curve load shape impacts to enable pay for performance markets for demand flexibility.
Recurve Strategic Partnership Manager Randy Roy
As Recurve’s Strategic Partnerships Manager, Randy coordinates with aggregators (implementors) to help them understand the FLEXmarket and develop meaningful strategies to engage and profit.
Randy has decades of startup experience in the cleantech space and is passionate about developing business strategies using data analytics.
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