White Papers and Press Releases

White Papers

Turning Utility DG Threats Into Business Opportunities: Part I. Assessing the Threats

It's Time For DG to Become an Integral Part of the Nation's Power Planning Solution

Press Releases

Turning Utility DG Threats Into Business Opportunities: New White Paper Series and Workshops Help Utilities Evaluate and Plan for Distributed Generation

5 Million US Businesses Can Now Evaluate DG Electric Bill Savings With New Online Service

dgmarketplace.com Taps into $9 Billion DG Energy Savings

Turning Utility DG Threats Into Business Opportunities: New White Paper Series and Workshops Help Utilities Evaluate and Plan for Distributed Generation

Durham, N.C., March 17, 2004. A new white paper series, workshops and market reports are now available to US and Canadian electric utilities to assist in evaluating and planning for DG revenue, energy and hourly load impacts.

"Declining DG system costs, more favorable regulatory treatment, and the development of ever smaller and more efficient DG, CHP (combined heat and power) and micro-CHP systems ensures that most utilities will find DG troublesome with revenue losses and hourly load impacts growing at an increasing rate," says Dr. Jerry Jackson, author of the white papers and president of Jackson Associates.

The white paper, "Turning Utility DG Threats Into Business Opportunities: Part I. Assessing the Threat," describes and illustrates DG assessment and planning issues with actual utility customer data. The paper may be viewed at: http://www.dgmarketplace.com/wpdgeval.html

Jackson Associates provides onsite workshops and Utility Service Area DG/CHP Market Reports to support investor-owned, public, municipal and cooperative electric utilities in assessing DG/CHP revenue, energy and hourly load impacts and in developing strategic business plans incorporating these technologies.

A unique feature of both the workshops and reports is the inclusion of sample analysis results for the client's own utility service area drawn from the one million-plus US and Canadian MAISY Utility Customer Databases. Information on workshops and reports are available at http://www.dgmarketplace.com ; information on MAISY databases is available at http://www.maisy.com .

Jackson Associates has been providing utility customer databases, energy analysis, marketing and technology analysis since 1982. A partial list of clients is available at: http://www.dgmarketplace.com/contact.html

5 Million US Businesses Can Now Evaluate DG Electric Bill Savings With New Online Service

Users provide zip code, business type and size to get immediate, savings estimates for onsite electricity generation with engines, microturbines and fuel cells

Durham, N.C., January 13, 2004. Businesses across the country are realizing energy bill savings by installing onsite or "distributed" generation (DG) systems. While DG has been used for decades by larger commercial customers like hospitals and universities, recent technology advances are providing cost savings for smaller customers. Restaurants, nursing homes, exercise clubs, office buildings, schools and other small to medium sized utility customers are cutting electric bills and improving power quality and reliability in locations from California to New York.

A new Web site, dgmarketplace.com, now makes it possible for any commercial utility customer (office, retail, school, hospital, etc) in the US to get immediate online analysis of potential electricity bill savings and other costs and benefits of a DG system. DG MarketplaceTM provides the information needed to make informed decisions concerning a potential DG application.

Web visitors provide a few building site details and DG Marketplace applies its database of hourly loads, utility rate structures and distributed generation technologies to determine energy bill savings. This new interactive software designs and evaluates DG systems optimized for each user's site characteristics.

DG evaluations can be conducted by going to http://www.dgmarketplace.com .

DG Marketplace, under development for more than a year, applies the widely-used MAISY ® Utility Customer and Hourly Load Databases which are based on more than one million customer records in the US and Canada. This new site also provides online access to MAISY hourly loads at http://www.dgmarketplace.com/hloads.html .

Jackson Associates, developer of DG MarketplaceTM, and MAISY ® Utility Customer and Hourly Load Databases (http://www.maisy.com ) has provided energy-related information, analysis products and consulting since 1982. Clients include DG manufacturers and suppliers, electric and gas utilities, energy service providers, ESCOS, research and government agencies and other energy-related organizations. A partial list of clients is provided at http://www.dgmarketplace.com/contact.html .

dgmarketplace.com Taps into $9 Billion DG Energy Savings

Online Site Analysis Reveals Distributed Generation Profits

Durham, N.C., July 22, 2003. US commercial and industrial facilities could save more than $9 billion in annual energy bills with distributed generation (DG) systems. These savings are unrealized, in part, because customers lack information on potential DG benefits and DG companies face high costs in identifying individual profitable applications. Customer identification, contact and onsite engineering evaluations often exceed $10,000 per site. DG MarketplaceTM, being introduced today, acts as a clearing house where customers can evaluate DG applications and companies can promote their unique products and services.

DG MarketplaceTM provides prospective DG customers with a FREE, easy-to-use, online assessment which calculates the costs and benefits of an actual DG application. Users can contact corporate sponsors through advertising links or can request that DG Marketplace contact sponsors for follow-up activities. Corporate sponsors contacted by DG Marketplace can also receive extended results including hourly site analysis based on the facility's 8760 hourly electric and thermal loads.

The analysis process in DG Marketplace effectively "tries out" each available technology at a customer's site in various applications and operating strategies to determine which system best meets the economic criterion specified in the session.

Jackson Associates, developer of DG MarketplaceTM, and MAISY ® Utility Customer and Hourly Load Databases has provided energy-related information, analysis products and consulting since 1981. Clients include DG manufacturers and suppliers, electric and gas utilities, energy service providers, ESCOS, research and government agencies and other energy-related organizations. A partial list of clients is provided at http://www.dgmarketplace.com/contact.html .