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GridShare Capacity Auction Program

Benefits for Your Business Is Your Business Eligible? How does GridShare Work? Contact Us to Learn More

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Partner with us in the GridShare Capacity Auction

GrandBridge Energy is now recruiting partners in the Cambridge and North Dumfries areas who can reduce electrical demand by 100kW or more during peak periods between June and September 2026 (the program window). Our total goal for 2026 is 5 MW.

Financial compensation will be provided when your business reduces its electrical load and/or activates behind-the-meter Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) during peak hours, thereby lowering demand and providing grid capacity.

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Benefits for Your Business

When your business partners with us in our GridShare Capacity Auction Program, you will be helping to build a more efficient, reliable, and sustainable grid — and best of all, you’ll be compensated to share your business energy capacity.

  • Receive monthly payments for participating during the program window – a no-risk monetization opportunity.
  • Enhance system reliability and resiliency by addressing grid capacity constraints and outage risks.
  • Enhance system capacity to facilitate quicker business and residential connections.
  • Support local economic growth and enable new developments.
  • Empower partners to participate in Ontario’s clean energy transition.
  • Showcase participation in Ontario’s modern grid solutions.

Which Businesses are Eligible?

  • GrandBridge Energy customers in Cambridge and selected areas of North Dumfries.
  • Business customers with the ability to reduce electrical demand by 100kW or more during peak periods in the program window.
  • Owners/operators/aggregators of non-residential facilities who can curtail demand via dispatching DERs or reduce demand and know in real-time what their baseline is, to meet contractual participant agreements. *
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How does GridShare Work?

1. Starting in mid-January 2026, customers can register through Gridshare’s external portal. GrandBridge Energy will review potential partner applications.

2. During the annual bidding window in March, partners submit their capacity-sharing bids for the peak periods during the program window.

3. GrandBridge Energy will review and select the most competitive bids, based on cost and grid needs.

4. Formal participant agreements will be executed between partners and GrandBridge Energy. *

5. During high-demand peak periods (in the program window), a standby notice may be issued by GrandBridge Energy via email to participants prior to 7:00 a.m. EST on the day of activation. **

6. GrandBridge Energy will notify participants that their capacity is required for up to four hours, with at least two hours’ notice, up to two times a month (activation notices). Note: activation notices will only be sent when a related standby notice has been sent for that day.

7. Participants will provide capacity to the grid by reducing their load and/or activating their DERs.

 

 

8. Participants reduce their load and/or activate their DERs, providing grid capacity.

9. Participants may choose to provide their capacity, beyond two times a month, for additional compensation, if called
upon by GrandBridge Energy.

10. Participants will receive payments at the end of the following month, based on the verified capacity delivered to the grid.

 

*The Ontario Energy Board (OEB) is currently reviewing the GrandBridge Energy Non-Wires Solution Program application (EB-2025-0265). The execution of participant agreements between partners and GrandBridge Energy is contingent on OEB approval. Program rules, dates, and offerings may change ahead of contracting without notice.  View the full application on the OEB website.

**This is a proposed amendment to the program details in the draft participant agreements and draft rulebook filed in GrandBridge Energy’s Non-Wires Solutions Application with the OEB (file number EB-2025-0265).

Learn More

Register or Sign-in to the GridShare Program

Be part of the solution. GridShare™ connects customers and energy resources to support local grid capacity when it’s needed most. Explore the Pre-Auction Report, review the Rulebook, and Register / Sign-in here. 

Contact our Grid Innovation Team

Contact the GrandBridge Energy Grid Innovation Team today to discuss the benefits of this exciting partnership opportunity: [email protected]