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

Conference · Sun Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2002

OSTI ID:805147

Heffner, Grayson C ^[1]

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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.

• Research Organization: Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 805147
• Report Number(s): LBNL--51496; B& R EB5401000
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
AVAILABILITY
BUSINESS
CAPACITY
DEMAND RESPONSE LOAD MANAGEMENT DEMAND BIDDING BACK-UP GENERATION PRICE PRICE RESPONSIVE LOAD
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRICITY
LOAD MANAGEMENT
MONITORING
RELIABILITY
SHORTAGES
VOLATILITY
WHOLESALE PRICES