Demand response

Managing energy systems for reliability and sustainability

The case for demand response (DR) initiatives has been made for many years. Looking forward, peak demand for electricity will continue to rise over the next decade. But capital committed to electric power generation, transmission, and distribution is expected to grow less steeply than demand.

DR has the potential to play a significant role in closing the supply-demand gap and easing the strain on power delivery infrastructure. Many in the electric power industry view DR as a potential solution to mitigate growing peak demand, enhance grid reliability, and defer new power generation and delivery capacity development.

 

Enabling demand response through ‘smart’ technologies
Demand response programs also can substantially reduce demand and eliminate or postpone the need for higher cost investments in additional generation capacity.

When DR is implemented via technologies with broader energy management capabilities, the result can be a cost-effective solution with a wide array of benefits, including reduction of carbon-emitting generation.

 

Insight and experience for effective demand response

KEMA helps clients plan and implement effective demand response programs—improving energy conservation and energy efficiency and helping energy consumers manage costs, and improve the quality of the environment.

 

We offer clients the insight and experience into the strategies, processes and technologies needed to manage efficient and effective demand response programs:

• program planning and implementation

• program evaluation

• sustainable buildings and operations

• smart grid technologies.

We also have developed a forecasting model to assess the potential for demand response, load control, and other pricing options. This model has been successfully used to forecast realistic peak demand impact.