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   Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory develop data and technologies that
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DEMAND RESPONSE


DEMAND RESPONSE RESEARCH CENTER

Shaping, shedding and shifting energy use within Smart Grid infrastructures


DEMAND RESPONSE

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WHAT IS DEMAND RESPONSE?

Demand response happens when a utility, aggregator or grid operator
enables electricity customers to change their power consumption
through financial or other incentives. Our group's research touches on various
facets of demand response technology, programs and incentives, which can
help the grid become cleaner, more affordable and more reliable. 

The majority of demand response has traditionally involved hot summer day
reductions in load. There is a growing interest in demand flexibility that
includes increasing load at times of the day when renewable energy sources are
abundant. Grid Interactive Efficient Buildings (GEB) can provide both energy
efficiency and demand flexibility that results in decreased cost for
customers and smart grid integration. 


OUR WORK

Enabling widespread, effective demand response requires advancements in our
understanding of electricity markets, customers, buildings, electric vehicles
(EVs) and storage technologies, along with standardized ways for grid operators
to communicate with these systems. We are working to shed light on the potential
market for demand response resources, and how to help these resources operate
more effectively.

Mary Ann Piette (pictured above), director of the Building Technology & Urban
Systems Division at Berkeley Lab, is a lead researcher for the Department of
Energy in the area of Demand Response.

We are working to develop automation for demand response and our evolving smart
grid. Berkeley Lab's leadership led the way in developing OpenADR, which is
a successful and evolving communications data model and is now an international
standard. Learn more about our different research areas below.

ADVANCING DYNAMIC ENERGY MANAGEMENT

The California Load Flexibility Research and Development Hub (CalFlexHub) is the
innovation hub supporting the scaled adoption of affordable, equitable, and
reliable load flexible technologies. CalFlexHub seeks to advance the capability
of smart building technologies to provide flexible energy load for the State of
California and beyond. CalFlexHub is made possible by the California Energy
Commission and funded through the Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC)
Program.

Learn more about CalFlexHub and sign up for the quarterly newsletter at
calflexhub.lbl.gov(link is external).




DEMAND FLEXIBILITY


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