A cost-effective way to make the switch to LEDs in the greenhouse

It's still years away from achieving that goal. According to Scientific American, the power supply shortage in California over the next five years will range from 600 megawatts to 3,500 megawatts, prompting regulators to experiment with new, more direct incentive and rebate programs that reward residents and enterprises for decreasing energy consumption during peak demand — most crucially the evening hours of summer months.

Those efforts culminated in the Market Access Program following Gov. Gavin Newsom's July 2021, emergency proclamation to state energy regulators. Enacted through 2023, the program allocates $150 million to pay customers directly for decreasing energy usage during peak and non-peak demand hours. If payments are commensurate with average commercial value per kilowatt-hour, they could be 10 times greater than those for energy saved during non-peak hours.

The program deviates from more traditional rebate and incentive programs in a few ways. Payments are allocated based on trackable energy savings at the meter when compared to year-over-year consumption, while also giving energy aggregators more flexibility to design tailored energy savings plans for each customer's technology portfolio, energy needs, and buying power without being forced to follow prescriptive or more rigid energy consumption and savings programs.

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Source: Fluence