Smart Grids are often seen as an enabler for an electricity market with increased benefits for both consumers and environment. From a system level perspective, many advantages could be achieved by implementing these innovative technologies. Furthermore, implementing smart metering could give consumers possibilities to obtain a better understanding of their own electricity consumption. The information could also help consumers to react on price signals by adjusting their consumption patterns. Increased knowledge usually increase awareness and could therefore be positive for energy efficiency activities. In order to investigate the potential for increased consumer participation in the electricity market with respect to demand-response and micro generation, a questionnaire was sent out to the households in the town Sala. The purpose of this paper is to describe the interest for demand response among households. Furthermore attitudes for demand response have been investigated.
Introducti onTo obtain increased consumer participation, demand-response and energy efficiency measures, will be important for the future energy system. Demand-response actions are foreseen to be a cost-effective component to balance grids with large shares of intermittent electricity generation [1]. Therefore it is important to understand how and why consumers would be willing to contribute with their flexible loads in a future electricity market. As a co mplement to small and mediu m scale technical oriented
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