Customer eligibility:

The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has four Demand Response programs: the Emergency Demand Response Program (EDRP), the ICAP Special Case Resources (SCR) program, the Day Ahead Demand Response Program (DADRP) and the Demand Side Ancillary Services Program (DSASP).

Emergency Demand Response Program

The Emergency Demand Response Program (EDRP) is a short-notice program that provides payments to electric customers who reduce load during specific times when electric availability in New York could be jeopardized.

During these events, participants are expected, though not obligated, to either reduce energy consumption or transfer load to a qualifying on-site generator for a minimum of four hours.

To participate in this program, your account must be capable of reducing load by at least 100 kW.

ICAP Special Case Resources (SCR) Program

The ICAP Special Case Resources (SCR) program is another short-notice program that also provides payments to electric customers who reduce load during specific times when electric availability in New York could be jeopardized.

Unlike the EDRP, participants are required to reduce power usage, and as part of their agreement, are paid in advance for agreeing to cut power usage upon request.

To participate in this program, your account must be capable of reducing load by at least 100 kW.

Day-Ahead Demand Response Program

The Day-Ahead Demand Response Program (DADRP) allows large energy users to bid their load-reduction capability, on a day-to-day basis, into New York's wholesale electricity market, where load reduction bids compete with generators' offers to meet the State's electricity demands.

If the load reduction bid is less expensive than a generator's offer to produce more electricity, it is accepted and the bidder is obligated to reduce load during the specified hours on the following day.

The basis of payment is determined by the difference between the metered load and a predetermined baseline amount during the same period.

To be participate in this program, your account must be capable of reducing load by at least one megawatt through load curtailment.

Demand Side Ancillary Services Program (DSASP)

The Demand Side Ancillary Services Program (DSASP) provides retail customers that can meet telemetry and other qualification requirements with an opportunity to bid their load curtailment capability into the DAM and/or Real-Time Market to provide Operating Reserves and regulation service.

Scheduled offers are paid the appropriate marketing clearing price for reserves and/or regulation.

To learn more about these demand response programs, please visit the New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) Web site, or contact Charmaine Cigliano, O&R's Customer Energy Services Section Manager, at 845-577-3121.