Innovari Selected By Gander Mountain To Support Sustainability Goals
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Interactive energy platform developer, Innovari, announces today its engagement with Gander Mountain Company to provide cost-effective, reliable and responsive demand optimization solutions in support of the retailer's sustainability goals.
Gander Mountain has recently completed a successful pilot with Innovari to determine the demand optimization potential for their stores and a proof of concept for Innovari's Interactive Energy Platform™. The retail giant has 149 stores across 26 states.
Innovari's Interactive Energy Platform dynamically connects commercial and industrial customers with their utilities delivering unprecedented financial, reliability, security and efficiency improvements across the energy value chain. The solution attacks the electric grid's core problem – the load duration curve – unlocking affordable capacity to improve system utilization. In the process, Innovari helps commercial customers strengthen relationships with their utilities and their communities.
Gander Mountain, headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the nation's largest network of outdoor specialty retail stores for shooting sports, hunting, fishing, camping, boating, apparel, footwear and active performance lifestyle. Gander Mountain was established in 1960 and currently operates over 6.9 million square feet of retail space in the continental United States.
"Working with Innovari has resulted in the benefits of energy savings and revenue generation by participating in strategic market programs," Gander Mountain's energy manager, Matt Sansone said. "The revenues generated allow us to invest back into sustainability upgrades for our sites. Due to the success we've seen with Innovari's energy management services and in support of our goal toward a smarter and more effective way to participate in an evolving energy market, we're committed to working with Innovari to engage in grid optimization programs across all of our locations."
"Our Innovari team is proud to have the opportunity to work closely with Gander Mountain to provide a solution that allows them to reap the rewards of demand optimization without any impact to daily operations," Innovari founder and CEO Chris Hickman said. "We look forward to our continued work with Gander Mountain as we look to go beyond existing programs and begin offering tailored energy portfolio management to create valuable sustainability programs that will benefit them and the grids that serve them."
About Innovari:
Innovari's interactive energy platform connects utilities, their customers, and their communities to improve how the world uses energy. Our solution attacks the electric grid's core problem—the load duration curve—unlocking access to affordable capacity that improves system utilization, reliability, and financial performance, while our non-profit, Plugged into Kids, brings together utilities and their customers to help the children in their communities. With deep grid situational awareness, we enable dynamic, two-way verifiable demand side management; grid system optimization; renewable and distributed energy resources integration; and more. Innovari is the utility industry's Capacity for Change: www.Innovari.com.
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