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Demand Response (DR) technologies allow utilities to talk to devices inside the customer premise. They include such things as load control devices, smart thermostats and home energy consoles. They are essential to allow customers to reduce or shift their power use during peak demand periods. Demand response solutions play a key role in several areas: pricing, emergency response, grid reliability, infrastructure planning and design, operations, and deferral.
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While residential demand response might be overrated, it is certainly demonstrating its usefulness in many parts of the country. An announcement from regional transmission organization PJM underscores DR's growing value for the industry.
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The demand response business model is broken, and until it's fixed residential DR will be nothing more than a pipe dream. That's the opinion of Sentec CEO Mark England, who proposes a solution he thinks could motivate consumers and appliance manufacturers. See if you agree.
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Japan put an URGENT! stamp on its smart cities/smart grid efforts following 2011's disastrous combination of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown. Now, the government is supporting major projects in four large cities as well as other similar programs elsewhere in the country.
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Honeywell and Opower have released a new technology they say will help utilities draw more homeowners to voluntary programs designed to cut energy use. Right now they're testing it in a trial with PG&E in California.
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The smart grid core and enabled technology market is expected to show substantial global growth over the next several years. And the number of commercial buildings expected to adopt DR programs is expected to more than double over the next five years.
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Will 2013 be a breakthrough year for residential demand response and home energy management? Energate VP Louis Szablya thinks that may be the case and offers up 10 predictions for what we might expect.
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If you're interested in demand response, this is a good week to devote some time to reading. A new report from FERC provides a detailed assessment of DR and advanced metering and the Demand Response Directory has added a new free library service that includes white papers, presentations, case studies and more.
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One of our industry experts calls distributed generation the most disruptive influence that utilities have faced in recent history. Yet despite the challenges, DG along with demand response and energy storage is on practically everyone's list of must-have smart grid technologies in the next decade.
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We've got a lively point / counterpoint underway on demand response's scalability and whether residential and commercial loads are worth trying to reduce through demand management programs. Today Comverge exec John Rossi makes the case for engaging all demand-side resources to reduce load.
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If you ask Kevin Klustner and Todd Greenwalt, they'll tell you today's approach to demand response is wrong-headed and will never scale. We have similar concerns, and thought you should hear why the two Powerit Solutions execs insist energy-intensive businesses must be the linchpin of a successful DR market - and how to make it happen.
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Itron and Cisco win big in Los Angeles. Telvent and Tendril ink sweet deals in Australia. Elster is selling more meters in Brazil and Schneider Electric will be charging up Pecan Street EVs. We've got all of that and more in this week's smart grid wins list - including a 'hats off' to Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories.
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A new report forecasts the number of households participating in residential demand response programs will double worldwide in six years as more utilities understand the possible benefits for themselves and their customers. That's good news of course. We're just not sure we agree with the assessment of what could be driving the growth.
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The appearance of an automated demand response (AutoDR) standard opened the door for vendors to not just make their own systems AutoDR compliant, but also to pre-integrate their systems with someone else's. Click for a look at how Schneider Electric and IPKeys are going about it.
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We're seeing a blistering pace of new smart grid releases that tackle everything from switchyard failure prevention to energy storage to "surgical" demand response. In our latest installment of Discovery Showcase we're featuring eight that we thought you'd want to know about - from Silver Spring Networks, CURRENT, Siemens and others.
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A demand response pilot IBM is working on with several Swiss companies is interesting on several fronts. Among them: it's targeting industrial loads, it's using a supermarket chain's industrial freezers, and it's using load flexibility to match up with renewables.
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