Quick summary As electricity demand grows and peak periods become more expensive to serve, demand response is becoming an operating strategy: identify flexible loads, control them in ways occupants can tolerate, measure the reduction, and aggregate many small actions into…
Quick summary Demand response is often discussed as a grid program, but its practical success depends on what happens inside buildings. Commercial facilities contain many loads that are small individually but meaningful in aggregate: window air conditioners, PTACs, vending machines,…
Quick summary A VPP coordinates many small distributed resources so they can provide meaningful grid value at scale. Controllable building loads, including appliance-level and plug loads, can be part of that flexibility if they are measured, connected, and dispatchable. Demand…
