Coordination of Energy Efficiency and Demand Response

Abstract

This paper summarizes existing research on the relationship between energy efficiency and demand response. Using information gathered through interviews with program administrators, customers, and service providers, this paper discusses the coordination of energy efficiency and demand response programs, with a particular focus on current practices and opportunities. It also discusses barriers to coordinating these two types of programs. This paper was developed as a resource for a variety of audiences that may be interested in the nexus between energy efficiency and demand response. Intended audiences include policy-makers, program administrator staff, regulatory staff, service provider organizations, and stakeholders who provide input on the design and implementation of energy efficiency and demand response programs and tariffs.

Price, environment and security: Exploring multi-modal motivation in voluntary residential peak demand response

“…Energy efficiency programmes, smart meters and demand response efforts have been deployed together and can have synergistic benefits (Goldman, Reid et al 2010). Significant demand response potential has been estimated to exist in the residential sector, based on direct load control for air conditioning and water heating plus dynamic pricing programmes (Rohmund, Wilker et al 2008).…”

Certification prerequisites for activities related to the trading of demand response resources

“…Today, DR is becoming more automatic and easier to implement for customers since electricity prices and similar information can now be automatically delivered and because communication technology is more accessible [27]. System operators can therefore allow customers to participate in different DR alternatives.…”

Demand response: a strategy to address residential air-conditioning peak load in Australia

“…Control signals become more widely accessible through communication networks. All these technologies will facilitate the application of more intelligent and customerfriendly demand response programs, allowing customers to identify and target discretionary loads that can be curtailed or shifted [4]. A roll-out of smart meters and a shift to time-of-use pricing structures along with inhome energy displays provides the best way to reduce air-conditioning peak load.…”

“…Large-scale deployment of these programs has the potential to reduce the need for expensive peak generations, to provide significant bill savings for customers, to enhance electric system reliability, and to increase the penetrations of intermittent renewable energy [4]. However, at the current stage, most of the activities and initiatives aiming at reducing peak load focused on the commercial and industrial sectors where are logistically easier to be implemented than in the residential sector [5].…”