Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)

Abstract

The authors would like to thank the Technical Advisory Group (listed below) for their assistance in this document. We also want to acknowledge Chris Scruton, Ivin Rhyne, Kristy Chew, Martha Brook, and Mike Gravely at the California Energy Commission along with Ron Hofmann and Roger Levy, consultants to the California Energy Commission and LBNL, and David Watson, former LBNL employee, for their ongoing support. We also want to thank Nance Matson for her assistance in finalizing this document. i Preface The California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program supports public interest energy research and development that will help improve the quality of life in California by bringing environmentally safe, affordable, and reliable energy services and products to the marketplace. The PIER Program conducts public interest research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) projects to benefit California. The PIER Program strives to conduct the most promising public interest energy research by partnering with RD&D entities, including individuals, businesses, utilities, and public or private research institutions.

Multi-Agent-based Distributed Optimization for Demand-Side-Management Applications

“…It deals with the connection of household devices via a gateway-interface to a coordination centre and allows the automated control of consumers depending on variable power prices. Alongside to the OGEMA-project, OpenADR is an established system for automated demand-response, focusing on top-down business models controlled by a system operator [11]. According to [9] there is still a lack of a common communication standard for demand-side management.…”

Study on Auto-DR and pre-cooling of commercial buildings with thermal mass in California

“…It allows greater levels of participation and improved reliability and repeatability of the demand response and customer facilities [24]. A recently published specification describes an open standards based communications data model designed to promote common information exchange between the utility or Independent System Operator and electric customers using demand response price and reliability signals [25]. In this study, field tests of optimal pre-cooling strategies using the Auto-DR system were conducted on all twelve DR events from July to September.…”

Regression models for demand reduction based on cluster analysis of load profiles

“…LBNL is currently is in process of standardizing these communications data models, called as "Open Auto-DR Communications Specification," in soon to be released report [9]. Table I shows CPP event days in 2008.…”