Supporters
The following organizations proudly support the Community Storage Initiative and its mission to advance distributed energy storage across communities throughout the US.
A. O. Smith
A. O. Smith, a global water technology company, delivers innovative water heating, water treatment, and purification solutions for millions of consumers and business owners worldwide. A. O. Smith’s smart resistive electric and heat pump water heater technologies are ideal for helping integrate renewable energy into the grid and energy storage applications, while also ensuring consumer comfort. This advanced energy storage technology allows utilities to plan energy storage events in advance, taking advantage of wind, solar or hydro generation thereby reducing the need for fossil fuel generation.
www.hotwater.comCentral Electric Cooperative of Pennsylvania
Central Electric Cooperative of PA manages an electric thermal storage program comprised of electric resistance water heaters and electric heating systems. Heating load (500 accounts) shed is about 1.9 kw and electric resistance water heaters (about 1900 units) shed approximately 2 mw.
www.central.coopDairyland Power Cooperative
Dairyland Power Cooperative has offered a thermal space and water heating storage program and incentives to members for over 25 years. Moving forward we see storage technologies as an integral part of our smart grid future.
www.dairylandpower.comDuke Energy
Duke Energy is a regulated utility operating in six states in the Southeast and Midwest, serving approximately 7.3 million electric customers. Its Demand Response programs provide over 3,000 MegaWatts through a mix of residential and commercial offerings, including over 850,000 participants with over 1.5 million appliances controlled.
www.duke-energy.comFederated Rural Electric
Wind towers are prominent in our service area so it only makes sense to take this wind energy and store it in our large capacity electric storage water heaters. Federated has been controlling water heaters for 34 years to help keep our rates as low as possible for our member-owners. More than 50 percent of our members participate in our water heater program.
www.federatedrea.coopGARN
Since 1985 GARN has manufactured stand-alone, grid connected water based thermal storage systems for use in space or process heating. Sizes vary from 600 to 4,000 gallons, 16.5 KW to 105 KW. This technology seamlessly utilizes variable wind and solar generated power, helping to optimize the local electric grid.
www.dectra.netGreat River Energy
Great River Energy through its 28 member distribution cooperatives manages an electric thermal storage program that is able to store nearly a gigawatt of energy each night by controlling the electric resistance water heaters of 65,000 end-use members. GRE also offers an off-peak electric vehicle charging program.
greatriverenergy.comGreen Mountain Power
Green Mountain Power is driving the transformation of what an electric utility has been to what it now needs to be. The development of community scale energy systems, including the use of a variety of storage technologies, is a key component of our strategy. GMP controls 18,000 water heaters today.
www.greenmountainpower.comIce Energy
Ice Energy’s Ice Bear thermal energy storage systems transform the AC load into a clean, responsive and flexible grid resource. Ice Bears create and store cooling off-peak in the form of ice, and deliver it during peak hours, eliminating the peak AC load. 11 MWs have been installed to date with another 41 MWs contracted.
www.ice-energy.comRocky Mountain Institute
Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) has produced cutting-edge analysis of the value of demand flexibility and energy storage in the US electricity system. RMI has estimated a value of $13 billion/year from demand flexibility in the residential sector alone, and supports the adoption of “community storage” programs to help utilities capture this value.
www.rmi.orgSteffes Corporation
Steffes Corporation is a leading provider of innovative energy management and heating solutions. An example is our leadership in Electric Thermal Storage (ETS) which helps to optimize and better utilize electrical energy. We are a North Dakota manufacturing company and a global designer of energy solutions with more than 300 employees.
www.steffes.comVermont Energy Investment Corporation
The Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC) has been a leader in grid-interactive vehicle policy development and the role of wholesale energy markets. Our focus is on developing equitable community storage, including aggregating electric light and heavy duty vehicles as a resource capable of participating in a number of markets.
www.veic.orgVaughn Thermal Corporation
Vaughn Thermal Corporation manufactures V-Grid ‘grid-enabled’ ETS water heaters and HPWHs for utility demand response programs across the country. Vaughn V-Grid products can be upgraded with grid-interactive functionality, allowing them to be aggregated and controlled in support of the Smart Grid.
www.vaughncorp.comPalmetto Electric Cooperative
For 25+ years Palmetto Electric Cooperative has utilized off-peak electric resistance water heating to lower cost and save energy for our members. Under our program currently over 35,000 large capacity tanks are controlled. The cooperative and its members realize annual savings of $3.4 million.
www.palmetto.coop