Why Edgecom Energy?
We reduce energy costs and emissions for large energy users by helping decision makers understand, improve and control how they consume energy and water. This is achieved through solutions that involve a combination of custom software and hardware, and our team's uncompromising focus on customer success and customer service.
Common Electricity Definitions – Learn the Electrical Lingo
Every industry has specific jargon and terms that are supposed to make communications easier. Not only do some of these confuse regular customers, but they also confuse industry professionals as the same thing is called different names by different people. See our list of common industry terms below: ICI – Industrial Conservation
Learn How to Predict The Top ICI Peaks Like A Data Scientist
This Webinar features ICI program basics, peak predictions using IESO, drivers of coincident peaks and much more ICI program insight.
The Impacts of COVID-19 on Ontario’s Residential Electricity Usage
Thursday was National Work from Home Day and, it has officially been over a year since the initial lockdown started. Despite all the change and uncertainty brought on by the recent pandemic, working from home is one by-product of COVID-19 that is more than likely here to stay. With the mandatory closures of non-essential buildings and workplaces, with no indication of how long this will last, working from home has become the new normal.
What is a Network Operations Center (NOC)?
With new technological developments occurring every day, it is essential to stay on top of trends to continue improving your business by integrating new and potentially industry-changing technologies. With this in mind, we've decided to provide a quick rundown of a topic that has become increasingly prevalent recently – the Network Operations Center or NOC.
Why Energy Budgets are like Credit Cards – and why that’s a bad thing
Have you noticed how much easier it is to buy something that you will pay off in a month- vs taking out all the funds from your checking account right now? It's the reason companies like Affirm are all over e-commerce these days. All those buy-now-pay-later commercials on TV work. Energy bills have the same effect. In most cases electricity and natural gas are charged on a monthly basis - this adds yet another level of dissonance between the energy used and the direct hit to the bottom line.
What is Demand Response and Capacity Auction
Demand Response (DR) programs are used by many system operators to improve grid reliability. Unfortunately, most of the available literature will give you very technical and complex answers when describing DR. This blog post aims to explain DR in digestible and straightforward terms.
What is a “Duck Curve”
The energy “duck curve” is a term used to describe the shape of a graph that represents the daily electricity demand and […]