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Title: Configuring load as a resource for competitive electricity markets--Review of demand response programs in the U.S. and around the world

Abstract

The restructuring of regional and national electricity markets in the U.S. and around the world has been accompanied by numerous problems, including generation capacity shortages, transmission congestion, wholesale price volatility, and reduced system reliability. These problems have created new opportunities for technologies and business approaches that allow load serving entities and other aggregators to control and manage the load patterns of wholesale and retail end-users they serve. Demand Response Programs, once called Load Management, have re-emerged as an important element in the fine-tuning of newly restructured electricity markets. During the summers of 1999 and 2001 they played a vital role in stabilizing wholesale markets and providing a hedge against generation shortfalls throughout the U.S.A. Demand Response Programs include ''traditional'' capacity reservation and interruptible/curtailable rates programs as well as voluntary demand bidding programs offered by either Load Serving Entities (LSEs) or regional Independent System Operators (ISOs). The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (LBNL) has been monitoring the development of new types of Demand Response Programs both in the U.S. and around the world. This paper provides a survey and overview of the technologies and program designs that make up these emerging and important new programs.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (US)
OSTI Identifier:
805147
Report Number(s):
LBNL-51496
R&D Project: 673151; B& R EB5401000; TRN: US200305%%152
DOE Contract Number:  
AC03-76SF00098
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: The 14th Annual Conference of the Electric Power Supply, CEPSI 2002, Fukuoka (JP), 11/05/2002--11/08/2002; Other Information: PBD: 1 Sep 2002
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; AVAILABILITY; BUSINESS; CAPACITY; ELECTRIC POWER; ELECTRICITY; LOAD MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; RELIABILITY; SHORTAGES; VOLATILITY; WHOLESALE PRICES; DEMAND RESPONSE LOAD MANAGEMENT DEMAND BIDDING BACK-UP GENERATION PRICE PRICE RESPONSIVE LOAD

Citation Formats

Heffner, Grayson C. Configuring load as a resource for competitive electricity markets--Review of demand response programs in the U.S. and around the world. United States: N. p., 2002. Web.
Heffner, Grayson C. Configuring load as a resource for competitive electricity markets--Review of demand response programs in the U.S. and around the world. United States.
Heffner, Grayson C. 2002. "Configuring load as a resource for competitive electricity markets--Review of demand response programs in the U.S. and around the world". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/805147.
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