Open Automated Demand Response Communications in Demand Response for Wholesale Ancillary Services
Oct. 31, 2009
U.S. Department of Energy, Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
S. Kiliccote, M.A. Piette, G. Ghatikar, E. Koch, D. Hennage, J. Hernandez, A. Chiu, O. Sezgen, J. Goodin
This paper describes the automated system architecture and the flow of information to trigger and monitor the performance of Demand Response (DR) events from a pilot program being conducted by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to investigate the technical feasibility of bidding certain DR resources into the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) day-ahead market for ancillary services nonspinning reserve.
