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Preliminary RON Announcement

Announcing a Demand Response Research Opportunity Notice

A Public Webcast/Teleconference will be conducted on July 21, 2005 from 10 am to noon PST.

RSVP Requested

Please RSVP for the July 21st DRRC RON Webcast/Teleconference by sending your name and contact information (including title, affiliation, address, phone number and e-mail) to drrc@lbl.gov.

Background Information

The California Energy Commission (CEC) created the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) in 2004. It is charged with conducting and disseminating near-term research that advances the multi-institutional needs for demand response in California. Key stakeholders include the CEC, California Public Utility Commission, California ISO, investor and municipal utilities, consumer groups, trade associations, technology providers and other research organizations.

With the guidance of a Partner Planning and Advisory Committee, the DRRC identified and prioritized eight research topics. The first two highest priority research topics, highlighted in the accompanying exhibit, will be released for public comment in July 2005. A Research Opportunity Notice (RON) for each topic will provide research objectives and identify potential projects to address public policy, technical and analytical issues. Multiple research projects may be awarded to address a single RON.

The first research topic, "Establish the Value of Demand Response" will initiate a comprehensive evaluation to better understand the value demand response contributes to the utility, customer, and broader interconnected electric network. Looking beyond traditional combustion turbines to establish equivalent capacity values, research in response to this RON is expected to address environmental, societal, insurance, opportunity cost and other sometimes difficult to quantify costs and benefits. Establishing metrics or other measures to value the components of demand response and developing methodologies to support utility and regulatory decision processes is included in this research effort.

The "Incentives and Rate Design for Efficiency and Demand Response" RON will seek development of a framework and prototypical rate designs for translating the value of demand response into clear understandable incentives or price signals that link energy markets and utilities with their customers. Presenting customers with rates and incentives that integrate efficiency and demand response is expected to simplify customer operating and energy investment practices and substantially increase long-term load and energy impacts.

These first research projects will address fundamental strategic and policy issues necessary to build demand response into a viable system resource.

For more information contact: Mary Ann Piette, Research Director at or Roger Levy, Program Development & Outreach Manager at .

Participation Instructions

This meeting will be broadcasted via webcast and teleconference.

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Webcast over WebEx

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  5. Host: Berkeley Lab

Dial-In Numbers for Audio

  1. Leader: Nance Matson
  2. USA Toll Free Number: 888-955-8941
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