Demand Response
ERCOT said it continues to expect to have sufficient resources to meet projected peak-demand during the spring and summer.
FERC approved changes to NYISO’s scarcity pricing logic to better reflect the real-time value of demand response.
FERC won’t be revisiting the demand response compensation rules under Order 745, commissioners said at the NARUC winter meetings.
The PJM Market Implementation Committee endorsed new market data confidentiality rules and discussed capacity bilateral transactions.
Prices dropped 26% in ISO-NE’s 10th Forward Capacity Auction as new resources more than made up for retiring generation.
FERC Commissioner Tony Clark called for another look the pricing of demand response.
Having survived a major legal challenge, demand response now must overcome behavioral and political obstacles.
Demand response began in the 1950s, when utilities began offering “interruptible” programs to large commercial and industrial customers.
The Rocky Mountain Institute, whose founder coined the term “negawatt,” says the future is in storage-enabled “flexiwatts.”
ERCOT will send state regulators a white paper that outlines potential revisions to its operating reserve demand curve.
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