Passive Demand Response
Challenge: Effectively manage demand during peak periods.
Because of the high quality of life and growing career opportunities in distributed work locations, many American cities are enjoying steady growth. With this growth, demand for energy is rising as well; demand that manifests itself most during peak periods. To accommodate load growth, energy providers are increasingly faced with investing in capital equipment for new generation capacity.
It is possible to defer this investment or avoid it altogether by implementing demand response and load reduction programs. Though effective, such programs carry implications for both the utility and its customers. Traditional demand response programs require customers to change behaviors, and the perceived obtrusive nature of demand response has caused resistance to demand response adoption.
Demand Energy Solution: Distributed Demand Shifters™ that charge and create load during off-peak hours, then discharge during peak hours when demand increases.
Install Demand Shifters at distributed delivery points and charge them during off-peak periods, creating load using purchased power during low demand periods. Order the discharge of stored energy during peak periods, flattening the load and fully utilizing power purchased at lower bulk rates, while at the same time guarantee meeting load reduction goals.
Utilizing stored power from Demand Shifters during peak periods will reduce the load and help meet demand response requirements, with no customer involvement or adverse impact on lifestyle.
Value: Fully meet demand response goals unobtrusively.
Demand Response
The Demand Shifter would be installed at homes or businesses in the service territory, and would charge during periods of low demand using excess purchased power, and discharge during peak demand hours ensuring demand response goals are met without a change in customer behavior.