Sentences with phrase «premise of demand response»

The basic premise of demand response — utilities charge large energy users a lower rate year - round in exchange for powering down during peak hours — has existed for decades.

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In other notable recent developments, Simply Energy, the Australian retail arm for Engie, said in late March that it will aggregate 6MW of Tesla household batteries together with 2MW of demand response at commercial premises in Adelaide in a virtual power plant project supported by the government - backed Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

(B) Megawatts subject to the ability of a load - serving entity to call on demand response programs, smart appliances, smart electricity or energy storage devices, distributed generation resources on the entity's customers» premises, or other measures directly capable of actively, controllably, reliably, and dynamically reducing peak demand («dynamic peak management control»).