Your energy flexibility could earn you 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.
Through alt by Alectra, eligible customers could get paid for taking part.
Register now. Decide whether to participate later.
Register your interest in alt by Alectra.
Complete this short form to let Alectra know you are interested and receive updates as alt 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 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 the same area draw power at once, the local grid can come under pressure. Just like water moving through a pipe, the grid can only carry so much electricity at one time.
alt helps connect local grid needs with energy flexibility from eligible homes and businesses.
Four Ways to Go alt
When the local grid needs support, you could earn money by changing how or when you use electricity.
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 is a local energy market being developed by Alectra. It gives eligible customers a new way to get 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 Grid Market opens an auction opportunity.
The market asks eligible participants to offer flexibility that could help meet that 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
alt by Alectra is part of the Local Flexibility Market Consortium, working with partners to build 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.