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Small Business Demand Response with Communicating Thermostats: SMUD's Summer Solutions Research Pilot

Publication Date: September 2009
Publishing Organization: U.S. Department of Energy, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Format: PDF
Authors: K. Herter, S. Wayland, J. Rasin
Keywords:

consumer behavior, doe - lbl, ee-dr, integrated energy-efficiency/demand response, pilot, report, sacramento municipal utility district service territory, smart grid

Summary:

This report documents a field study of 78 small commercial customers in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District service territory who volunteered for an integrated energy-efficiency/demand-response (EE-DR) program in the summer of 2008. The objective for the pilot was to provide a better understanding of Demand Response issues in the small commercial sector.