Demand Response
Demand Response (DR) is a change in the power consumption of an electric utility customer to better match the demand for power with the supply. In many respects, demand response can be put simply as a technology-enabled economic rationing system for electric power supply. ( especially when the electrical grid is under stress) . Optimizing your industrial operations to improve energy efficiency can be a challenge. Strategic energy management allows you to gain control of your energy use and reduce consumption with no impact to production or product quality. With the right products and services, you can gain real-time energy awareness, identify targeted areas to optimise, and improve the efficiency and profitability of operations.
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Global temperature adjustments increase cooling setpoints (or decrease heating setpoints) for an entire facility for a given period. Facilities managers may find that some occupants prefer the temperatures under Demand Response events, indicating the possibility of making permanent changes to the setpoints. When a Demand Response event is called, the Demand Response program provider sends a signal as specified in the program enrollment contract. The signal may be based on price, reliability, or supply and demand.
From demand response to integrated demand response
In the traditional power system demand response, customers respond to electricity price or incentive and change their original power consumption pattern accordingly to gain additional benefits. With the development of multi-energy systems (MES) in which electricity, heat, natural gas and other forms of energy are coupled with each other, all types of energy customers are able to participate in demand response, leading to the concept of integrated demand response (IDR). In IDR, energy consumers can respond not only by reducing energy consumption, they can opt for off-peak energy consumption by changing the type of the consumed energy from multi-energy systems (MES)
Japan: Demand Response is still finding its feet in the power grid market
Demand response enables utilities to avoid building new power plants that are used only during the peak hours of the day (typically late afternoon to early evening). Building and operating plants that are used only on occasion (also known as peaker plantsÂ) is expensive, and those costs are eventually passed on to utility ratepayers. Demand response also enables utilities to avoid purchasing high-priced wholesale energy by reducing the demand for that energy at particular times of the day.
