Assessment of Industrial Load for Demand Response across U.S. Regions of the Western Interconnect

Technical Report · Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1336551· OSTI ID:1336551

Starke, Michael ^[1]; Alkadi, Nasr ^[1]; Ma, Ookie ^[2]

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
2. USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Washington, DC (United States)

Demand response has the ability to both increase power grid reliability and potentially reduce operating system costs. Understanding the role of demand response in grid modeling has been difficult due to complex nature of the load characteristics compared to the modeled generation and the variation in load types. This is particularly true of industrial loads, where hundreds of different industries exist with varying availability for demand response. We present a framework considering industrial loads for the development of availability profiles for demand response that can provide more regional understanding and can be inserted into analysis software for further study.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Analysis (EI-30) (Energy Analysis Corporate)
• OSTI ID: 1336551
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM-2013/407; 7564
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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