About DG Marketplace^TM

• Overview of Site Analysis
• Mission
• Easy to Use Sessions
• Objective and Independent Analysis
• The DG Marketplace Innovation
• Unique Analysis Features
• Limited User-Supplied Information
• Analysis Results
• Privacy Policy

Overview of Site Analysis Process

Mission

The DG Marketplace mission is to provide distributed geneation resources for DG customers, manufacturers and retailers and electric utitlies.

Easy to Use Sessions

DG Marketplace sessions are easy to conduct and require no special technical knowledge. Users provide a limited amount of information on a facility or market segment, then DG Marketplace software takes over, behind the scenes estimating 8760 hourly electric and thermal end-use loads, considering electric and natural gas rate structures and evaluating DG technologies and applications for each individual site.

Objective and Independent Analysis

DG Marketplace is committed to providing objective and independent assessments of DG applications. Jackson Associates (JA), developer of DG Marketplace, values its reputation for providing objective, state-of-the art energy-related information and analysis. JA corporate clients include more than 100 electric and gas utilities, retail energy providers, power marketers, energy service companies, DG manufacturers and retailers, investment companies, research organizations, state and federal government agencies and other energy-related organizations (see Jackson Associates). DG Marketplace analysis is confidential and is never disclosed unless specifically requested by the user; see the privacy policy for more detail).

Unique Analysis Features

DG Marketplace brings together, in a single independent and objective online process, all of the information and analysis required to complete an initial economic screening of DG systems for actual sites or for market segments (i.e., sites defined with "typical" characteristics) in any location in the US.

DG Marketplace analysis includes:

• Objective, Independent, Reliable Information - Jackson Associates has been providing independent economic and energy analysis to energy industry customers, providers and regulatory agencies since 1982.
• 8760 Hourly Loads-Based Analysis - DG Marketplace applies optional user-supplied site-specific information along with 8760 hourly electric and thermal load characteristics from MAISY, a database of more than one million utility customer records, in a statistical/engineering analysis to determine each site's 8760 electric and thermal loads. (Hourly loads are also available as a separate product with end use and 8,760 hourly detail. See Hourly Loads).
• Detailed DG Technical Systems Analysis - Online DG analysis results are based on the same detailed technology analysis used by DG manufacturers and suppliers.
• Detailed Energy Bill Analysis - Energy bill savings are difficult to calculate in many areas because of the way that DG savings interact with complicated electric and natural gas rates. DG Marketplace software applies rate structures or rate models directly to 8760 hourly site energy use before and after installation of DG systems to estimate energy bill savings.

Limited User-Supplied Information

DG Marketplace software is unique in its ability to integrate as much or as little actual information as available in each site or market segment analysis. At one extreme, users can specify only a building type, size and location and conduct DG site analysis using "typical" characteristics for the building type developed from widely-used MAISY utility customer databases. Alternatively, users can identify a variety of site characteristics including floor space, operating schedules, and information from monthly electric and other energy bills to reflect unique characteristics of actual sites.

Analysis Results

Analysis results include annual energy use and cost analysis with and without a DG system which has been designed, sized and applied by DG Marketplace to meet both payback and total savings criteria. Results are also available with user-specified system characteristics and with monthly and 8,760 hourly results and analysis.

Privacy Policy

Analysis sessions require limited information on the user's site or market segment specification. This detailed information is maintained in confidence and never divulged to any party unless requested by the user. See Privacy Policy .