Proxy Demand Response (DR) is a creative program that can be used to offset the need to build expensive peaker plants and help with the management of renewable sources of energy that are intermittent in nature, like wind and solar. While the wholesale market has been operating in other states and later this year in California, the retail market has barely been accessed, due to several factors. First, it represents a smaller chunk of electricity consumption than Commercial and Industrial (C&I), and naturally utilities and third party aggregators focused on the low-hanging fruit. Second, the recent arrival of Smart Grid technologies only now offers opportunities for utilities to consider mass residential deployment and participation.
via Demand Response – Getting Ready for its Close-up in Residential Markets?.
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