Social implications of residential demand response in cool temperate climates

Darby, Sarah; McKenna, Eoghan

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.07.026

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“…This makes it difficult to 16 Though on very different scales, this is better than the 1% and 4% rates reported in Braithwait and Faruqui (2001) and Baladi et al (1998) respectively for different Time-of-Use trials in the US, where air-conditioning is a major feature. It is comparable to a recent UK voluntary Time-of-Use trial where direct marketing was used (Darby and McKenna, 2012), though less than the 15% participation rate for the UK Economy 7 tariff (cited in .…”

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Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider

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Financial incentive approaches for reducing peak electricity demand, experience from pilot trials with a UK energy provider

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“…There has been a growing interest in residential demand response particularly due to the significant contribution of the residential sector to the system peak demand: more than 45% in the UK [9]; above 50% in New Zealand [10] and more than 50% in South Australia [11]. Positive results have been reported for residential DR programs in terms of reducing peak load [12,13].…”

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Residential peak electricity demand response—Highlights of some behavioural issues

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Krumdieck

Urmee

2013

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Electricity demand response refers to consumer actions that change the utility load profile in a way that reduces costs or improves grid security. The focus of demand response has mainly been on the commercial and big industrial sectors because of the large demand reduction that they can offer to the utility grid operators. Utilities are showing increasing interest in residential demand response (RDR). RDR can be treated as an energy resource which can be assessed and commercially developed, however, there are still some issues that remain to be addressed for RDR to be successful. These include price unresponsiveness of some residential consumers, equity issues and high cost of the metering infrastructure. The aim of this paper is to investigate and present some of the challenges in achieving effective voluntary demand reduction based on a review of residential demand response literature as well as the general residential energy use behaviour literature. The authors propose the use of a hybrid engineering approach using social psychology and economic 2 behaviour models to overcome these challenges and realize the benefits of supply security and cost management.

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“…These exchanges can involve storage and generation facilities in the home, but even households without microgeneration, batteries, storage heaters or hot water tanks have a potential resource in their demand, something which can be reduced or shifted when this will assist network or grid management. (Darby and McKenna (2012) set out a range of possibilities for this, with and without automated response.) With this narrative comes a more explicit recognition of the potential importance of energy management and energy data to householders, as in this account of smart home developments:…”

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