Keeping the lights on and earning cash
From farms to factories, our customers are getting paid to help the grid.
“Resideo is focused on expanding the benefits of our energy solutions to communities, like Ameren Illinois in MISO, to help ensure the stability of the electric grid that powers the community. Our work with Voltus can help the Midwest avert an energy crisis during peak periods of demand and protect what matters most."
What is demand response?
Energy blackouts can happen when grid operators do not have enough electricity to meet demand. To prevent this, grid operators and utilities pay large energy users to conserve energy through programs known as “demand response”. Unlike other restrictive programs which require you to reduce energy more frequently, Voltus makes demand response easy by offering better incentives, more flexibility, and more transparency so you can focus on your business.
Voltus works with the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) to enable these demand response programs for energy users.
Voltus is the Midwest’s leading demand response provider
Here's why Midwest businesses choose Voltus:
Easy to work with
Voltus understands your operations to create a customized curtailment plan so you can support the grid when its needed. Voltus provides additional coaching during grid emergencies.
Local presence
Unlike others, Voltus puts a local face to the name, with an expert team right here in the Midwest to meet and support you.
Tech to make life easy
View your demand response earnings and payments, along with your real-time energy data and event performance.
Voltus technology makes demand response easier, more profitable and fully transparent
How to work with us
1. Speak with an expert
Voltus works to understand your operations, ensuring we identify solutions that are least operationally disruptive to your current processes and easiest for your internal team to deploy. From there, we provide an earnings estimate tailored to your needs.
2. Enrollment
Customers easily sign up by completing Voltus’s no-cost, no-risk, easy-to-understand commercial agreement.
3. Install & onboard
Voltus enrolls your facilities, nominating optimal kW for curtailment, and installs a device to retrieve real-time energy consumption data.
4. Start earning
When the grid is stressed, you'll be contacted to reduce your energy consumption—then get you paid!
Top MISO demand response industries
Don’t see your industry? No problem. We work with all large energy users.
Asphalt, Concrete, Sand & Aggregates
Receive advance notification that an energy blackout may happen, and get paid to ramp down and protect your equipment.
Chemical Processing
Get paid for an advanced energy blackout warning to prevent sudden shutdowns and protect your employees.
Colleges & Universities
Turn down your Campus’s chillers, air compressors, HVAC, lighting, or refrigeration to earn cash. Use our tech to scale DR across sites.
Machinery Manufacturing
Have automation, generators, or redundant processes you can take offline? You may be a great fit for demand response.
Oil & Gas
Consider it a backup test for EPA-compliant generators, and earn extra cash to put against operating expenses.
Plastic Manufacturing
With an hour-to-day ahead warning, never let an energy blackout catch you off guard with plastics in process.
Voltus's local team of energy experts
Kurt Brown
Luke Metcalf
