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Demand Response and Load Reduction

  • Customer Load Participation in Wholesale Markets: Summer 2001 Results, Lessons Learned and Best Practices,” Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, February 2002
    Brief Summary: Key findings from thirty demand response programs including investor-owned utilities, ISOs, and a federal power marketing authority. Focus is on the market potential of price-responsive load programs, program experience, lessons learned and identification of current “best practices.”
  • Configuring Load as a Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets—Review of Demand Response Programs in the U.S. and Around the World”, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, November 2002
    Brief Summary: A survey and overview of the technologies and program designs that make up current and emerging demand response programs in the U.S. and other countries. Information including target markets, market segmentation, pricing schemes, measurement, verification, enabling technologies, and operational results is provided.
  • Overview of Load as a Resource”, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS), Oak Ridge National Laboratory/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, May 2002
    Brief Summary: Examines the potential and value of demand response programs as a means of improving the performance of competitive electricity markets while enhancing the reliability and security of the grid.
  • Do Enabling Technologies Affect Customer Performance in Price-Responsive Load Programs?”, Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, August 2002
    Brief Summary: Study of demand response programs in New York (NYSERDA) and California (CEC), with particular focus on program design features, control strategies, and reliance on enabling technologies as a predictor of the ability of commercial/industrial customers to deliver load reductions.
  • Demand Response: Design Principles for Creating Customer and Market Value”, Peak Load Management Alliance, November 2002
    Brief Summary: Summarizes design principles for gaining customer participation, creating customer and market value for demand response resources. Details design principles that help build value propositions for customers and support efficient electric markets.
  • Results of the EEI/PLMA 2001 Demand Response Benchmarking Survey”, Edison Electric Institute, April 2002
    Brief Summary: Results of a survey of 25 companies or entities including investor-owned, municipal, and cooperative utilities as well as energy services companies operating demand response programs.
  • Demand Responsiveness in Electricity Markets”, Office of Markets, Tariffs and Rates, FERC, February 2001
    Brief Summary: Details current opportunities provided by demand response programs and defines technical issues, demand elasticity in market power analysis, and effective measurement techniques.

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