Demand Responsive Programs - An Emerging Resource for Competitive Electricity Markets?

Date Published
08/2001
Publication Type
Report
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LBL Report Number
LBNL-48374
Abstract

The restructuring of regional electricity markets in the US has been accompanied by numerous problems, including generation capacity shortages, transmission congestion, wholesale price volatility, and reduced system reliability. These problems have created significant new opportunities for technologies and business approaches that allow load serving entities and other aggregators, to control and manage the load patterns of their wholesale or retail end-users. These technologies and business approaches for manipulating end-user load shapes are known as Load Management or, more recently, Demand Responsive programs. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is conducting case studies on innovative demand responsive programs and presents preliminary results for five case studies in this paper. These case studies illustrate the diversity of market participants and range of technologies and business approaches and focus on key program elements such as target markets, market segmentation and participation results; pricing scheme; dispatch and coordination; measurement, verification, and settlement; and operational results where available.

Year of Publication
2001
Pagination
15
Institution
LBNL
City
Berkeley
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Unknown
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