To practice responding to those fluctuations, Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) is teaming up with Honeywell to use
their automated demand response technology in its first wind power - based pilot.
Customers will be linked to HECO over Honeywell's
automated demand response servers and the Tridium controllers will be installed at buildings to make the actual power load adjustments like cycling the air conditioner units, turning off non-essential lights, pumps and motors.
Other
automated demand response programs have worked on balancing power load with a day's or even hour's notice, but wind power will require much faster response times.
McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP,
automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.
«Our technology would allow utilities to benefit from
automated demand response.»
Not exact matches
Effective treatment for cardiac arrest
demands an immediate
response from an individual to recognize cardiac arrest, call 911, start CPR, and use an
automated external defibrillator (AED), the committee said.
This is not completely
automated rather requires a
response from the trader and
demands him to take an action manually.
Inspire is now working to take the smart energy concept one step further by
automating a customer's home controls and decreasing energy usage on their behalf, like a sophisticated
demand response platform.