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Texas Military Bases Could Offer Timely Energy Relief to ERCOT's Power Grid as EPA Rulings May Force Shutdown of 1,300 MW's by Early 2012.

By John Frank, Senior Director, Williams & Stevens Energy Inc., November, 16, 2011 - The DoD leadership is pressing for innovation from Utility participants, equipment vendors, and ESCO implementers to deliver a diverse range of secure onsite clean energy projects and EPC measures. Opportunities are now on the table that could free up the military's Demand Response capability to offer energy to the local Texas grid communities and develop a national model.  more...
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DSM and Demand Respone - Concepts Universally Accepted...

By Joao Gomes, Technical Manager, , September, 20, 2011 -

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Up in Smoke: Seven Gigawatts of Coal Retrenches from PJM

By Ade Dosunmu, Senior Director of Strategic Markets, Comverge, August, 05, 2011 - At the most recent annual auction for electric capacity in PJM, the Base Residual Auction (BRA) for delivery year 2014/15 electric capacity cleared with lower volumes versus the prior year due to lower demand. Prices were lower than previous years in the Mid Atlantic Area Council (MAAC) region and higher than previous years in the rest of the Regional Transmission Organization (RTO). These intra-PJM price variations were anticipated due to the impact of new west-to-east transmission facilities, the economic downturn and the effect of recent EPA rulings on generator retirements.  more...
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Demand Response - Quantifying the Impact on the Customer

By Peter Noland, Consulting Partner, Artois-Bell, July, 29, 2010 - Demand Response (DR) is already a clear cut winner in category of "killer apps" in the evolving Smart Grid. A key area of opportunity moving forward, and which may help provide a more comprehensive valuation of DR programs, may thus be to give deeper consideration as to DR's impact upon the utility's relationship with its customers.  more...
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Smart Grid - Without HAN, There Will Be No Demand Response?

By Joao Gomes, Technical Manager, , July, 15, 2010 - The problem is not in product design, but in its daily operations, is where the challenge is presented. Utilities and Consumers will have to find different paths, but both convergent and this will not be easy, alone, technology may not be able to establish or even bring the expected benefits.  more...
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How intelligent load shifting can solve two of the biggest problems in smart energy

By John Steinberg, CEO and Co-Founder, EcoFactor, June, 29, 2010 - During the dark days of early 2009, one of the brightest spots anywhere on the economic horizon was the smart grid, and more specifically, the anticipated full-speed-ahead, full-scale deployment of smart meters. The expected benefits were well-understood and significant: instant meter reads, quick bill settlements, and improved visibility into local outages. Smart meters also enable time-variant rates, which have the potential to smooth spiky load curves and thereby improve efficiency up and down the grid.  more...
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Smart Grid -- What is Demand Response?

By Joao Gomes, Technical Manager, , April, 20, 2010 -

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Smart Grid - Utilities and Consumers Dreams...

By Joao Gomes, Technical Manager, , April, 01, 2010 - What is the dream of Utilities with the development and deployment of Smart Grid, if the utilities could direct the policies of the planning area of Smart Grid, we'll see that the area associated HAN and the Consumers would be placed in the background?  more...
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Energy Market Imperfections: Sizing the Fixed Price Penalty from DSM Expansion

By Brooks Albery, Principal, Opinari Research Associates, LLC, November, 02, 2009 - The market for Energy Efficiency (EE) is large, highly fragmented, and includes many specific and challenging market 'imperfections' that need to be addressed before EE can live up to its full potential. This paper focuses on DSM programs as one source of EE investment and estimates the impacts of one market imperfection -- the fixed cost recovery challenge -- on kWh rates under a scenario where DSM programs expand to cover demand growth over the next decade.  more...
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Stimulating DSM Investment as a Product within Utility Portfolios

By Brooks Albery, Principal, Opinari Research Associates, LLC, September, 11, 2009 - The primary question being addressed through this conference is how internal operations and regulatory policies of utilities and the regulatory agencies will be impacted in a carbon-constrained future. Setting aside for the moment the question of whether constraining carbon is the right policy direction, the question becomes "how" the carbon constraining policies can be most economically implemented. Two primary directions for the industry under a carbon constrained future are: 1) utilize technology advancements to reduce the carbon intensity of how new power supply is provided to consumers; and, 2) utilize advancements in energy efficiency ("EE") to allow consumers to generate the same level of energy 'utility' out of a reduced amount of energy consumption.1 This paper provides thoughts from the electric utility's perspective in terms of operating Demand Side Management ("DSM") programs as a product line within their portfolio with an overall goal of maximizing shareholder returns. As a key player in any push to grow EE as a method for reducing carbon, the actions of the utilities will play a central role.  more...
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