Practical, Effective Solutions for a Critical Need

A pressing need

Faced with a growing electricity demand, the phase-out of generating assets, fuel price volatility, and environmental stewardship, Ontario must establish a fine balance between future energy supply and demand. Both governments and local distribution companies must focus on energy conservation through Demand Side Management (DSM) as an efficient and timely alternative to improving available electricity supplies.

Finding practical   and cost-effective solutions is critical. Market initiatives are driven by the threat of serious outages, aging infrastructures and environmental commitments. Underlining these incentives is the pressing need to expand future supplies to meet a growing demand.

Effective solutions

Kinectrics can help you meet key objectives in achieving DSM success to ensure consistent, reliable power. We can design and develop effective programs for distributors and consumers that will:

• Reduce overall consumption in strategic sectors
• Promote a conservation culture
• Facilitate more efficient use of electricity
• Flatten/moderate power utilization "peaks and valleys"
• Achieve internal and external energy efficiencies
• Implement private/public strategies and partnerships

Utilities, local distributors and others need to respond quickly to take advantage of government financial incentives. In the search for practical answers, innovative Demand Response and DSM programs designed by Kinectrics offer important short and long-term benefits for both suppliers and consumers of electricity.

Creating a market environment for renewable energy and emerging energy technologies also solves short and long-term market needs. Actions taken by utilities and distributors designed to influence consumption patterns will increase overall energy efficiency, encourage conservation, and facilitate load management over the long term.

Advanced expertise

Kinectrics provides superior experience and technical capabilities to governments, utilities and end- users in building effective demand and supply programs. Kinectrics can perform knowledgeable, comprehensive operation analysis for individual utilities, distributors or municipalities to detail patterns of consumption, and accurately assess systems, equipment and markets (residential, commercial or industrial customers). We can also help clients directly by compensating for a lack of specific technical expertise, or supplementing reduced client-staffing levels.

Proven experience

Growing from a former utility (Ontario Hydro) Kinectrics gives clients the advantage of experience in all aspects of designing and running Demand Side Management programs successfully. We offer detailed assessment and development expertise for the full spectrum of technologies and systems related to distributors and the end-user.

Kinectrics is an independent, objective entity offering added value to clients through a wide range of specialized capabilities. We can perform monitoring and detailed evaluation, providing clients with comprehensive, objective programs and recommendations. Kinectrics has extensive resources, to develop strategic client DSM programs that include complete technical support and program delivery.

Comprehensive Capabilities

• DSM program design and implementation
• Detailed DSM technology analysis
• Market assessment of DSM technical and attainable potential
• Accurate reliable monitoring and reporting of DSM results
• Congestion analysis
• Owner’s engineer
  • Expert impartial advice for supply options
  • RFP preparation and selection
• Field testing of DSM installations
• Congestion analysis to identify bottlenecks
• Comprehensive state-of-the-art laboratory services
• Supplemental program evaluation

For more information, contact

info@kinectrics.com