EnergyConnect's leading-edge solutions enable its participants to reduce electricity usage during periods characterized by high demand, supply shortfalls or high wholesale prices through Energy Automation, proactively shifting non-critical electrical loads, utilizing standby generators, and significantly enhancing the value and performance of energy storage. Importantly, these solutions are realized largely without significant capital expenditures to modify the physical plant of a participant's facility. The majority of facilities (such as educational campuses, high-rise office buildings, large commercial buildings, industrial plants, and shopping centers) already have the potential to realize economic benefit from the energy used in the building every day.