Commercial Efficiency Market

​Enabling Innovative Business Models and Customer Choice

Rather than develop a typical energy efficiency program with prescriptive saving measures and a lot of paperwork, MCE's Commercial Efficiency Market will directly subsidize Energy Efficiency and Demand Flexibility projects implemented by approved Demand FLEXmarket aggregators.  ​​

MCE's approach uses actual, metered savings from projects to determine payments to aggregators based on the hourly avoided cost value of their projects net of program and customer costs. In turn, aggregators will be motivated to maximize grid and customer outcomes, and can use this new cash flow to develop product strategies that drive greater savings and increased adoption by commercial building owners.

This program structure aligns incentives for all parties: MCE pays for actual system benefits generated by projects; customers save money on energy efficiency and demand management projects with an aggregator of their choice; aggregators use their expertise to create tailored solutions for their commercial building customers that best balance grid benefits and customer needs. ​

Grid-Responsive Peak FLEXmarket​

Delivering Peak Reductions To Improve Grid-Reliability, Decrease GHGs, and Help Customers Lower Energy Costs

Peak Price Signal (click to enlarge)

MCE is pleased to announce the launch of the Peak FLEXmarket, a first-of-its-kind pilot marketplace platform aimed at shifting energy use throughout our service area away from times of extreme demand.

The Demand FLEXmarket provides tools to measure hourly reductions in energy use that will allow MCE to compensate businesses working locally with our customers for energy savings during peak demand hours.
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The Demand FLEXmarket integrates a wide range of clean distributed energy resources, such as batteries, smart thermostats, or electric vehicle chargers. By offering a payment for energy reductions that values a range of resources equally, the Demand FLEXmarket ensures that incentives match the value of energy usage and that different solutions work together in a coordinated way.

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The FLEXmarket Platform from Recurve to provides MCE:

• Revenue Grade meter-based open-source savings for Advanced M&V 
• Settlement Quality transaction tracking via Recurve's Fleet Manager and Flex Ledger
• Data-driven engagement support to identify high-savings-potential customers

 
Aggregators that meet program requirements will be responsible for sourcing and delivering Energy Efficiency and Demand Flexibility projects, and paid on the avoided cost value metered performance using open-source population normalized metered energy consumption in MCE member communities.

MCE Service Area (click to enlarge)

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