The Department of Energy lists active consumer participation as one of the most important characteristics of a Smart Grid. This takes shape in two forms – electricity production and electricity consumption. One of the many benefits of the Smart Grid is its ability to integrate renewable energy sources into large scale electricity production. Another is [...]
Proxy Demand Response (DR) is a creative program that can be used to offset the need to build expensive peaker plants and help with the management of renewable sources of energy that are intermittent in nature, like wind and solar. While the wholesale market has been operating in other states and later this year in [...]