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The DRRC Newsletter
Director's Message
Welcome to the first issue of the PIER Demand Response Research Center’s newsletter. The last few years have seen some exciting conceptual and technological developments that are helping to move demand response (DR) closer to widespread use in California. Demand response can be defined as short-term modifications in customer end-use electric loads in response to dynamic price and reliability information.
Demand response has been identified as an important element of the State of California’s energy policies. The research conducted by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) is playing a substantive role in moving DR toward market acceptance. The California Energy Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Program supports energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) projects.
The Energy Commission created the DRRC in 2004 to develop, prioritize, conduct, and disseminate research that develops broad knowledge with the aim of facilitating the near-term adoption of DR technologies, policies, programs, strategies and practices, while ensuring that the research continues to be connected with the DR market and policy makers through substantial stakeholder input. Key stakeholders in the Center include system developers, aggregators, program implementers, utilities, industry trade associations, state policy makers, researchers, building owners, engineers and operators, building equipment manufacturers, and other end-use customers.
DRRC research results are being published in a wide variety of arenas, and new DR research opportunities are becoming available. We hope that you will join us by keeping informed about the Center’s work, responding to requests for proposals if you are a researcher in this field, and contacting us if you are an owner or manager interested in using demand response in your facility.
The DRRC newsletter will report on current demand response research, recent publications available at the Center website, and include notices about upcoming meetings and workshops related to demand response. Go to drrc.lbl.gov and click on the “Email notification” link to sign up for e-mail delivery of this newsletter as well as other updates about the Center’s work and activities.
We look forward to your participation in the Center’s work and the furthering of demand response technologies.
-Mary Ann Piette, Research Director
About the DRRC
The Demand Response Research Center is operated by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research Program (PIER). The Energy Commission created the DRRC in 2004 to develop, prioritize, conduct, and disseminate research that develops broad knowledge with the aim of facilitating the near-term adoption of DR technologies, policies, programs, strategies and practices, while ensuring that the research continues to be connected with the DR market and policy makers through substantial stakeholder input.
Contact Information
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Attention: Mary Ann Piette
One Cyclotron Road, MS 90R3111
Berkeley, CA 94720
Web: http://drrc.lbl.gov
Mary Ann Piette
Research Director
Phone: 510-486-6286
Fax: 510-486-4089
Email: MAPiette@lbl.gov
Roger Levy
Program Development and Outreach Manager
Phone: 916-487-0227
Email: RogerL47@aol.com
Nance Matson
Operations Manager
Phone: 510-486-7328
Email: NEMatson@lbl.gov
DRRC Research Projects
Current DRRC research projects include:
- Automated Demand Response
- Programs and Tariffs for Demand Response
- Demand Shifting with Thermal Mass
- Scoping Studies (Demand-Responsive Lighting, Indoor Air Quality Impacts of Load Shedding, Demand Response Behavior, Water TOU Tariffs and Demand Response)
- Research Opportunity Notices (Value of Demand Response and Demand Response Tariffs)
See the Projects menu of drrc.lbl.gov for more information.
Acknowledgments
The work described in this newsletter was coordinated by the Demand Response Research Center and funded by the California Energy Commission, Public Interest Energy Research Program, under Work for Others Contract No. 500-03-026 and by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.
Disclaimer
This newsletter was prepared as the result of work sponsored by the California Energy Commission. It does not necessarily represent the views of the Energy Commission, its employees or the State of California. The Energy Commission, the State of California, its employees, contractors and subcontractors make no warrant, express or implied, and assume no legal liability for the information in this report; nor does any party represent that the uses of this information will not infringe upon privately owned rights. This report has not been approved or disapproved by the California Energy Commission nor has the California Energy Commission passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of the information in this report.
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