The Revenue Hidden in Your Load: How Demand Response Is Becoming a Profit Center for Large Energy Users
Demand response programs have historically been viewed by enterprise energy users as a compliance mechanism or a modest utility rebate—something managed by facilities teams rather than finance. That perception is changing rapidly as aggregation platforms, grid stress events, and capacity market payments combine to make load flexibility a genuine margin driver. For large industrial operators and data center managers, the question is no longer whether to participate, but how to maximize the financ