Mercantile Accounts
In Ohio’s retail electric market, mercantile customers are a commercial or industrial customer if the electricity consumed is for nonresidential use and the customer consumes more than seven hundred thousand kilowatt hours per year or is part of a national account involving multiple facilities in one or more states.
Demand Response Programs
Occasional storms and heat waves, as well as periodic power plant repairs and maintenance, have the potential to affect Ohio’s supply and demand for electricity. When demand is high and supply is short, power interruptions can sometimes be the result. Demand Response programs are designed to enable customers to contribute to energy load reduction during reduction events (times of critical peak demand) in exchange for financial incentives ($27,000/MWh reduced). Reduction events are rare and are only called when the stress on the electric grid is significant, and demand response customers may continue their operations uninterrupted through temporary on-site generation. Demand response programs are designed to be both fiscally and environmentally responsible ways to respond to occasional and temporary peak demand periods. The programs offer incentives to governments and businesses that volunteer and participate by temporarily reducing their electricity use when demand could outpace supply.
Street Lighting Accounts
