Your energy flexibility, your choice, your opportunity to earn money.
When the local grid needs support, your home or business can earn money by shifting your energy use to another time, temporarily reducing your usage, or even providing energy to the grid if you have a home battery or solar panels.
With alt by Alectra™, you can explore new opportunities to put your energy flexibility to work.
Register your interest now. Decide whether to participate later.
Register your interest in alt by Alectra™.
Complete this short form to register your interest in alt by Alectra™ and receive updates as the market develops. Registration is free and does not commit you to participate — it is not enrollment, and nothing is connected or changed when you register.
See how alt by Alectra™ works
The challenge is not only how much electricity we use. It is also when and where we use it.
When many homes and businesses in one area use electricity at the same time, the local grid can become strained. Like water flowing through a pipe, the grid can only carry so much electricity at one time.
alt by Alectra™ helps connect local grid needs with flexibility offered by eligible homes and businesses.
Four Ways to Go alt
With alt by Alectra™, you could earn money by changing how or when you use electricity, reducing demand or making eligible energy resources available.
Shift usage
Move electricity use to a different time.
Example: Charge your EV or run business equipment later.
Reduce demand
Briefly use less electricity.
Example: A smart device temporarily reduces demand.
Return stored energy
Send stored energy back to the grid.
Example: A home battery provides energy when it is needed.
Generate power
Add local energy supply.
Example: Rooftop solar provides power to the grid.
You do not need to do all four. Your opportunity depends on your location, available energy resources and what works for your home or business.
How participation works
alt by Alectra™ is a flexibility market being developed by Alectra. It is designed to create opportunities for eligible customers to be paid when their energy flexibility helps meet a local grid need.
Alectra identifies a local grid need.
Electricity demand can become particularly high in one area at a specific time.
The alt by Alectra™ grid market opens an auction opportunity.
Eligible participants are invited to offer energy flexibility that could help meet the identified need.
Participants submit offers.
Depending on the opportunity, a participant may offer to change when electricity is used, briefly reduce demand or use an eligible energy resource.
Accepted participants get paid for providing flexibility.
If an offer is accepted and the agreed flexibility is provided, the local grid gets the support it needs and the participant gets paid.
There is no single fixed earnings amount. The value of flexibility depends on when and where it is needed, how much support the local grid requires, what resources are available and the results of the auction.
What is a DSO?
A Distribution System Operator, or DSO, helps coordinate local electricity needs with local energy flexibility.
As more homes and businesses use technologies like EVs, batteries, solar, smart controls, and flexible equipment, the local grid needs new ways to manage when and where electricity is used.
alt by Alectra™ is a customer-facing step toward this future.
Building a stronger local energy future, together
Through alt by Alectra™, Alectra is working in collaboration with the energy sector partners towards a more flexible, reliable and customer-focused electricity system.
Registration is an expression of interest only. It does not guarantee eligibility, participation, an accepted offer or a specific earnings amount.