10 articles tagged with "Demand"
If you are looking at a spreadsheet comparing the "firmness" of a commercial building’s HVAC load-shedding program against a 5MW/20MWh **Battery Energy Stora...
It sounds absurd until you are the engineer tasked with justifying why the local transit authority’s electric vehicle (EV) charging depot was curtailed durin...
The utility didn't just penalize the facility for a demand charge violation; they triggered a manual review of the facility's interconnection agreement, citi...
Demand Response" (DR) and "Interruptible Load" are often used interchangeably by marketing departments, yet they are fundamentally different animals in the e...
Treating them as synonyms is a quick way to blow your O&M budget or, worse, trigger a cascading trip during a peak load event.
The goal was simple: shed non-essential HVAC and lighting loads during peak pricing events triggered by the local utility.
In practice, DR is often a fragile, high-latency mess that relies on a daisy chain of unreliable communication links and poorly synchronized control loops.
You know that a VPP is essentially a highly orchestrated, distributed demand-side management scheme that relies on a level of telemetry and control latency t...
When procurement teams treat DR as a "set it and forget it" efficiency play, they inevitably end up with a portfolio of assets that are optimized for neither.
You pay a customer to shed load, the grid stays balanced, and everyone wins.