Over the course of the past two years, staff at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) in the U.S. have introduced novel customer engagement opportunities to participate in wholesale energy markets via
the Demand Response Auction Mechanism (DRAM) program.
«We recognize the need to move forward with third party direct participation in anticipation of
a demand response auction mechanism pilot,» wrote Administrative Law Judge Kelly Hymes in a proposed decision.
Utilities were directed by the CPUC last year to set up
a Demand Response Auction Mechanism, with the first pilot auction occurring in 2015 for a 2016 delivery.
In support of the demand response (DR) auction, the demand response post-auction report provides a summary of the zonal DR auction clearing prices, the capacity obligation awarded to each successful participant in each electrical zone, and the qualified capacity from
all demand response auction participants.
Through the IESO» s
Demand Response Auction large consumers, as well as aggregators of smaller institutional, commercial and industrial customers, can compete to provide demand response capacity.
In support of the demand response (DR) auction, the demand response pre-auction report provides existing and future
demand response auction participants with the information they would need to qualify their DR capacity, and subsequently submit offers for the
demand response auction.
Not exact matches
Hopping says that Wharton created the internship
auction program in
response to student
demand.
But accounting for
demand response and paying for it are different things, and PJM's proposal notes that it will be clearing capacity
auctions in 2015, including the Base Residual
Auction in May.
Battery storage and
demand - side
response have continued to play a crucial role in the UK's power mix, together landing more than 500MW of contracts in the most recent T - 1 Capacity Market
auction.
A group of Illinois nonprofits seeks to bundle together enough clean
demand response, renewable resources and energy storage to bid it into the PJM Interconnection's capacity
auction.
PJM rule changes also caused a dip in
demand response clearing the
auction.
In all, only 7,821.4 MW of
demand response cleared in this year's
auction.
Results of PJM's most recent capacity
auction in May yielded 10,975 MW of
demand response resources and PJM noted that there was a shift to types of resources that have more flexibility and a greater contribution to reliability.
Federal regulators last week rejected PJM Interconnection's proposed stop - gap measure to allow
demand response resources to participate in an upcoming
auction, saying the grid operator's proposal was premature.
AEMA, which has other objections to PJM's plan, told regulators that for PJM to need to rerun its base residual
auction, several events would need to occur, including: the Supreme Court declining to consider EPSA; the court deciding a second case to preclude FERC's exercise of jurisdiction over
demand response participation in the capacity market; and FERC would need to rule on both the EPSA remand and other complaints.
PJM filed a plan to allow
demand response to participate in the May 2015 Base Residual
Auction (BRA), in the event the U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear an appeal of FERC Order 745's dismissal.
However battery storage projects make up less than 2 % of the capacity procured via the
auction, with
demand - side
response (DSR) making up a further 7.45 %.
Along with new gas resources, the capacity
auction procured nearly 15,000 megawatts of
demand response and energy efficiency.
The figure below shows how much energy efficiency has cleared in each
auction (this does not include any
demand response resources).
This is an
auction - based market in which conventional generation, along with interconnection, storage and
demand response, bid to provide guaranteed capacity over the winter period.