ALCA

Advanced Load Control Alliance's (ALCA) mission is to promote load control as a viable option for utilty deployments in peak-demand reduction, economic dispatch, and/or T&D reliability; by sharing information on marketing, deployments, benefit-costs and technology attributes gathered from participating members and from information available in the public domain.

The ALCA was started by Mark Martinez (Southern California Edison) and Joe Kelly (Paragon) to provide a forum that allows participating utilities to share knowledge on their specific load control programs, while gaining insight and suggestions from colleagues at other utilities. The ALCA considers “advanced load controls” as those that use advanced communications, reliability or price triggers, linkages to meter reading and/or energy manager-type equipment. Examples of advanced technology suitable for discussion at ALCA meetings includes: Internet driven communications, gateway type technologies, cable communications, fiber-optic communications, two-way RF technology, advanced power line carrier technologies, and AMR or AMI interfaces.

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