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- load-side actions aimed at peak reduction for reliability and economic
purposes.
Demand Response:
- California Standard Practice Manual - Economic Analysis of
Demand-Side Programs and Projects -
2001/10 -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/States/California/CA-SPM-DR.pdf
- Cost-Effective Demand Response Requires Coordinated State-Federal
Actions - 2011-06-01 - 9 pages - Demand response has state,
regional, and national value. Both the states and FERC have statutory
obligations, under "just and reasonable" and "nondiscrimination" provisions,
to ensure that demand response produces that value. In the context of demand
response, the essential FERC–state relationship is this: FERC seeks to
create regional demand-response markets. It therefore has directed regional
transmission organizations (RTOs) to buy demand response from
state-authorized sellers. FERC has not ordered anyone to sell demand
response into the RTO market. Whether anyone sells retail demand response
into the RTO market—and thus whether there will be effectively competitive
demand-response markets—is entirely up to the states. Neither the states nor
FERC can change each other's statutory jurisdiction. What they can do is
aid—or impede—each other's jurisdictional efforts. With statutory
responsibilities fixed and each venue having discretion to aid or impede
each other's efforts, what are the options for each venue? To address this
subject, this paper focuses on four questions: 1. What has FERC done, and
why? 2. When deciding who should have opportunities to sell and buy retail
demand response, what are the states' market-structure options? 3. When
requiring or authorizing compensation to retail consumer providers of demand
response, what are the states’ options? 4. How do we take demand response
into account in the state-level and regional-level planning processes?
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Demand-Response/Cost-Effective-DR.pdf
- Demand Response in U.S. Electricity Markets: Empirical Evidence
- 2009-06-01 - 29 pages - Empirical evidence concerning demand
response (DR) resources is needed in order to establish baseline conditions,
develop standardized methods to assess DR availability and performance, and
to build confidence among policymakers, utilities, system operators, and
stakeholders that DR resources do offer a viable, cost-effective alternative
to supply-side investments. This paper summarizes the existing contribution
of DR resources in U.S. electric power markets. In 2008, customers enrolled
in existing wholesale and retail DR programs were capable of providing
~38,000 MW of potential peak load reductions in the United States.
Participants in organized wholesale market DR programs, though, have
historically overestimated their likely performance during declared
curtailments events, but appear to be getting better as they and their
agents gain experience. In places with less developed organized wholesale
market DR programs, utilities are learning how to create more flexible DR
resources by adapting legacy load management programs to fit into existing
wholesale market constructs. Overall, the development of open and organized
wholesale markets coupled with direct policy support by the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission has facilitated new entry by curtailment service
providers, which has likely expanded the demand response industry and led to
product and service innovation.
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Companies/Lawrence-Berkeley-National-Laboratory/Demand-Response-US.pdf
Also-filed-at: Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
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Regulators - Demand Response ///
- Load Impact Estimation for Demand Response: Protocols and
Regulatory Guidance - 149 pages - 2008-04-01 - The Demand Response
protocols and guidance address both ex post evaluation and ex ante
estimation of DR impacts. The load impact protocols not only provide input
to determining DR resource cost-effectiveness, but also assist in resource
planning and long-term forecasting. These protocols establish (a) minimum
requirements for load impact estimation for DR resources and provide
guidance concerning issues that must be addressed and methods that can be
used to develop load impact estimates for use in long term resource
planning; (b) provide guidance for ex post evaluation of event-based
resource options, ex post evaluation of non-event based resources and ex
ante estimation for all resource options, although the differences across
the three categories are relatively minor -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Demand-Response/Load-Impact-Estimation.pdf
- The Standard
Practices Manual: the economic analysis of demand-side programs and projects
in California - basically the bible used by many state commissions -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Regulators/The-Standard-Practices-Manual.pdf