Demand Response vs. Demand Side Management: Stop Confusing the Two
Treating them as synonyms is a quick way to blow your O&M budget or, worse, trigger a cascading trip during a peak load event.
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Treating them as synonyms is a quick way to blow your O&M budget or, worse, trigger a cascading trip during a peak load event.
The goal was simple: shed non-essential HVAC and lighting loads during peak pricing events triggered by the local utility.
In practice, DR is often a fragile, high-latency mess that relies on a daisy chain of unreliable communication links and poorly synchronized control loops.
You know that a VPP is essentially a highly orchestrated, distributed demand-side management scheme that relies on a level of telemetry and control latency t...
When procurement teams treat DR as a "set it and forget it" efficiency play, they inevitably end up with a portfolio of assets that are optimized for neither.
You pay a customer to shed load, the grid stays balanced, and everyone wins.