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Overview and Introduction to the Demand Response Report
UtiliPoint® recently conducted an extensive survey of various parties involved with the rapidly changing demand response (DR) market, including utilities, regulators and vendors of equipment and/or DR programs. The survey provided an opportunity to compare and contrast the different views of demand response starting with the definition of demand response and encompassing the most successful designs of demand response programs. An example of the type of information provided in the report is shown in the chart below where the inclusion of customer savings on energy bills in the evaluation of energy efficiency and DR programs is examined by the type of utility, showing the co-operative and municipal utilities are more likely to include customer savings than are investor owned utilities.
UtiliPoint® International’s Utility and Energy Technology practice has now released this report for the first time. This report addressed the following areas:
  1. What do utilities and regulators include as demand response?
  2. What are the main drivers for demand response?
  3. How are demand response programs evaluated?
  4. What plans do utilities and regulators have for time-based rates, particularly important in view of the Federal energy bill now under consideration by Congress.
  5. How is the demand response market changing?
  6. How should demand response programs for the larger customers be improved?
  7. What type of equipment is typically provided to demand response program participants?
  8. What role do regulators see for themselves in demand response?

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    For more information on this report, please contact Patti Harper-Slaboszewicz by phone 505.797.5475, or by email at pharper-s@utilipoint.com.