DR & Conservation

“The planning challenge is to determine how much of that flexibility can be made dependable, locationally useful, and economically comparable with conventional infrastructure.”

“Utilities are challenged with managing the higher prices for energy, increased infrastructure to move the electricity, keeping it all reliable, and then somehow trying to figure out how to make it somewhat affordable for people. It’s a complex puzzle that we have to work through.”

“Utilities and regulators should pay closer attention to the reliability tool with the lowest barrier to entry, and the speediest implementation today: demand response.”

“What’s unique about this panel is it enables a homeowner to understand what is consuming energy in the home. That allows a few unique effects. Number one, we are able to avoid utility service upgrades if you are electrifying your home, and if you have less than two hundred amps.”

“To better manage the rise in connections to the grid, utilities should consider implementing a Distributed Energy Management System, or DERMS, that can aggregate, and in some cases, control customer-owned assets.”

Conversations with DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory’s Director, Brian Anderson, NETL’s Jessica Mullen, and Kansas Geological Survey’s Franek Hasiuk.

This panel discussed emerging natural gas DR programs, looking at research in and the status of gas demand response, utility justification and implementation, customer experience, and evaluation, measurement, and validation.

From the AESP's Annual Meeting, a conversation with Jamie Barber of the Georgia Public Service Commission, Tom Hines of Arizona Public Service (consultant), Lon Huber of Duke Energy, William Ellis of Pepco, and Sharon Mullen of Guidehouse.

A conservation benefit to all ratepayers reduced 29 MW of lighting load across the winter peak.

Investor-owned utilities that meet their revenue requirement largely through sales of energy struggle to meet it with traditional rate structures.