PowerSecure pioneered the Interactive Distributed Generation IDG power systems platform, which uses sophisticated electricity forecasting software to reduce operating costs through peak shaving, enhances demand response resources and provides a suite of standby power solutions.

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By focusing on times and places of peak demand, he's cut response times and saved money which he's invested in extra training.

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The ambulance trust said some rural areas in Lincolnshire and Derbyshire Peak District had been "challenging" to reach within the response target times.

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At the top of the scale, demand response (DR) systems allow multiple enterprises to manage their usage through a third-party provider to balance peak loads and let each participant optimize costs.

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But it was partly a natural response to a severe contraction (in the Baltics, for example, GDP fell by up to a fifth from peak to trough).

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