Overview
Ice Energy’s Smart Grid capabilities are enabled by a two-way communications network and a sophisticated, utility-compatible smart grid controller that controls the Ice Bear system, manages the connected rooftop packaged unit and serves as an intelligent gateway for managing additional demand and consumption on installed buildings throughout a utility territory.
With an advanced software Smart Grid architecture to interface, integrate, and intelligently control installed units, the system creates an aggregated utility resource that is interoperable, scalable and dispatchable, providing utilities with the unprecedented ability to intelligently shape peak demand by managing the load profile of a single building, a feeder, a substation, a region or their entire grid.
This ability to aggregate and control thousands of individual units and to bundle their performance as a single utility resource enables a utility to evaluate the solution in much the same way as they evaluate new peaking generation for capacity and energy.