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Figure 4.1
Industrial actors in smart grid, from GTM research. Source: Greentech
Media
2013
New entrants are also positioning themselves to take advantage of the commercial
opportunities provided by smart grid development. For example, in the Northeastern
United States, third-party demand response aggregators such as EnerNOC consolidate
industrial and commercial customers and use the energy saved from the demand-response
project to bid into electricity markets. In this way, forgone demand becomes equivalent to
supply.
In Europe and the United States, companies providing detailed forecasts of wind speed,
such as Energie & Meteo Systems and WindLogics, are used by wind power providers,
system operations, electricity markets, and utilities to help integrate wind power into
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