Discover How Demand Response Can Be Used as a Resource to Maximize System Reliability...

Discover How Demand Response Can Be Used as a Resource to Maximize System Reliability While Minimizing System Cost

DUBLIN, Ireland--(Business Wire)--
Research and Markets
(http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c87097) has announced the
addition of Using Demand Response as a Resource to their offering.

The 1st Edition of Research Reports International's Using Demand
Response as a Resource report is a 40-page look at how demand response
can be used as a resource to maximize system reliability while
minimizing system cost.

Changing power flows and growing price volatility have made it
more difficult to ensure system reliability and moderate peak hour
prices. During times when the electric system is constrained due to
high demand, grid operators have two choices. They can either produce
more electricity to meet demand or they can call upon some of their
customers to reduce their load.

Using Demand Response as a Resource aims to provide the reader
with a thorough understanding of what demand response is, the benefits
it can provide, and how it can be used as a resource. It also aims to
provide an understanding of the barriers preventing greater use of
demand response as a resource and what can be done to overcome them.
It offers industry participants the information they need to begin
considering demand response as a viable resource in both utility and
transmission planning processes.

Topics covered in the report include:

Overview of demand response

-- Description of the different types of demand response programs

-- Analysis of the current utility planning process and the role
demand response currently plays in resource planning

-- Identification of the positive system impacts provided by
demand response

-- Discussion of the ancillary services that can be provided by
demand response

-- Evaluation of the challenges to using demand response as a
resource

-- Analysis of the different methods for valuing demand response

-- Overview of the transmission planning process for grid
operators

-- Evaluation of how demand response is treated in transmission
planning

-- Discussion of the current use of demand response as a resource

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

Summary

Overview of Demand Response

What is Demand Response?

Reliability-Driven Demand Response Programs

Market-Driven Demand Response Programs

Demand Response as a Resource

The Current Utility Planning Process

Demand Response and the Planning Process

Positive System Impacts of Demand Response

Ancillary Services Provided by Demand Response

Challenges to Using Demand Response as a Resource

Valuing Demand Response

Determining the Value of Demand Response

Quantifying the Value of Demand Response as a Resource

ISO/RTO Use of Demand Response as a Resource

Transmission System Planning Process

Treatment of Demand Response in Transmission Planning

Current Use of Demand Response

Impact of using Demand Response as a Resource in 2006/2007

Potential and Actual Resource Contribution of Demand Response

Glossary

Endnotes

For more information visit
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c87097

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager
Fax: +353 1 4100 980
press@researchandmarkets.com

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