Some firms are already beginning to show what can be achieved with demand response.
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That number could easily double again, he says, with a combination of dynamic pricing and demand response.
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Gas taxes or carbon prices intended to alter behavior only work by causing financial pain to force the demand response.
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EnerNOC provides demand response services, energy efficiency and energy procurement services to end-users in the commercial, institutional and industrial sectors.
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Commercial property owners should be able to fund renewable energy and demand response improvements, in addition to energy efficiency upgrades, with OBR.
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Other related technologies like demand response, consumer-side controls and energy storage are expected to play an equally important role in distributed-energy networks.
Think about an incoming demand response request, leading to a rolling blackout.
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Comverge Chairman, President and CEO Robert Chiste sees much growth--and much venture capital investment--in the related demand response and smart grid industries.
In addition, by monitoring the frequency or voltage of the power grid, the platform provides automatic demand response when grid conditions call for it.
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In California, demand response programs are rewarding companies who can shave their power usage, and everywhere else, power bills are going up, up, up.
"Effective demand response has great potential to lower consumer costs and dampen market volatility, " says Joseph Kelliher, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
The natural response when one data center is facing a demand response signal is to move the workload to a data center in another geography.
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Blue Pillar has deployed its network platform on 50 sites encompassing over 1, 050 endpoints, representing over 150 megawatts of capacity in major demand response markets.
By contrast, the VPP is a demand response platform that manages load on the demand side to create capacity and other products for electric utilities.
Demand response (DR) encompasses programs that pay consumers money to stop using electricity provided by the central power grid during periods of peak demand or system contingencies.
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Demand response programs were pioneered in the industrial sector and, as evidenced by the effort in Sheboygan Falls, have been enormously successful at reducing peak power demand.
Individually, many companies are investing in energy efficiency, notably "demand response" technologies that allow consumers to cut back on their energy use when power is most expensive.
If the situation does not improve, ERCOT will first drop load resources (a market-based demand response program) and other resources under contract to be interrupted during an emergency.
As the ICT environment continues to develop in the coming decade, it may not be surprising to see batteries supplying some types of demand response to the power grid.
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We communicated well in advance with demand response participants about potential DR events, and our customers were able to perform their own due diligence to prepare for the surge.
This idea, called "demand response, " has been practiced for years by individual large consumers like aluminum smelters and big factories, which get a price break on so-called interruptible power.
Additionally, utilities and regulators are challenged with simultaneously putting in place metering programs and time-based prices, says Dan Delurey, executive director of the Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition here.
At the top of the scale, demand response (DR) systems allow multiple enterprises to manage their usage through a third-party provider to balance peak loads and let each participant optimize costs.
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New Jersey-based Comverge and Boston-based EnerNOC--which find ways to reduce electricity use when energy is in highest demand, also known as "demand response"--further established the industry with their initial public offerings earlier this year.
React to outside power grid risks and demand response requests: To reduce risk of application outages, data centers must be able to closely monitor the facility and surrounding environment as well as their IT equipment.
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Back-up generators are only a small part of existing demand response programs and those that do participate must meet environmental standards and have limitations placed on the numbers of hours they may operate per year.
Grid Friendly Appliance Controller: Developed at the Pacific Northwest energy Laboratory, the Grid Friendly Appliance controller senses grid conditions by monitoring the frequency of the system and provides automatic demand response in times of disruption.
PowerSecure pioneered the Interactive Distributed Generation IDG power systems platform, which uses sophisticated electricity forecasting software to reduce operating costs through peak shaving, enhances demand response resources and provides a suite of standby power solutions.
And demand response will likely be a tough sell in very deregulated electricity markets such as Texas, where customers can choose from dozens of power retailers that compete by offering the lowest, most predictable energy prices.
In addition to those demand response dispatches, Constellation Energy was providing real-time market price information to many of its customers, thus giving them information on the value of curtailing energy use during the heat wave when power prices jumped.
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