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Title: Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)

Abstract

The development of the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification, also known as OpenADR or Open Auto-DR, began in 2002 following the California electricity crisis. The work has been carried out by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This specification describes an open standards-based communications data model designed to facilitate sending and receiving demand response price and reliability signals from a utility or Independent System Operator to electric customers. OpenADR is one element of the Smart Grid information and communications technologies that are being developed to improve optimization between electric supply and demand. The intention of the open automated demand response communications data model is to provide interoperable signals to building and industrial control systems that are preprogrammed to take action based on a demand response signal, enabling a demand response event to be fully automated, with no manual intervention. The OpenADR specification is a flexible infrastructure to facilitate common information exchange between the utility or Independent System Operator and end-use participants. The concept of an open specification is intended to allow anyone to implement the signaling systems, the automation server or the automation clients.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
Environmental Energy Technologies Division
OSTI Identifier:
951952
Report Number(s):
LBNL-1779E
TRN: US200913%%411
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32; AUTOMATION; CALIFORNIA; COMMUNICATIONS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRICITY; OPTIMIZATION; PRICES; RELIABILITY; SPECIFICATIONS; SUPPLY AND DEMAND

Citation Formats

Piette, Mary Ann, Ghatikar, Girish, Kiliccote, Sila, Koch, Ed, Hennage, Dan, Palensky, Peter, and McParland, Charles. Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0). United States: N. p., 2009. Web. doi:10.2172/951952.
Piette, Mary Ann, Ghatikar, Girish, Kiliccote, Sila, Koch, Ed, Hennage, Dan, Palensky, Peter, & McParland, Charles. Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0). United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/951952
Piette, Mary Ann, Ghatikar, Girish, Kiliccote, Sila, Koch, Ed, Hennage, Dan, Palensky, Peter, and McParland, Charles. 2009. "Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/951952. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/951952.
@article{osti_951952,
title = {Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)},
author = {Piette, Mary Ann and Ghatikar, Girish and Kiliccote, Sila and Koch, Ed and Hennage, Dan and Palensky, Peter and McParland, Charles},
abstractNote = {The development of the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification, also known as OpenADR or Open Auto-DR, began in 2002 following the California electricity crisis. The work has been carried out by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This specification describes an open standards-based communications data model designed to facilitate sending and receiving demand response price and reliability signals from a utility or Independent System Operator to electric customers. OpenADR is one element of the Smart Grid information and communications technologies that are being developed to improve optimization between electric supply and demand. The intention of the open automated demand response communications data model is to provide interoperable signals to building and industrial control systems that are preprogrammed to take action based on a demand response signal, enabling a demand response event to be fully automated, with no manual intervention. The OpenADR specification is a flexible infrastructure to facilitate common information exchange between the utility or Independent System Operator and end-use participants. The concept of an open specification is intended to allow anyone to implement the signaling systems, the automation server or the automation clients.},
doi = {10.2172/951952},
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place = {United States},
year = {Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2009},
month = {Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2009}
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