PLMA: Load Management Dialogues

The Promise and Progress of Integrated Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programs

March 19, 2020 PLMA
PLMA: Load Management Dialogues
The Promise and Progress of Integrated Energy Efficiency and Demand Response Programs
Show Notes

In a large missed opportunity to boost power grid flexibility and benefit customers, relatively few US utilities have programs that fully integrate energy efficiency and demand response, according to ACEEE’s recently published review of 44 utility portfolios. Program administrators typically have approached and implemented energy efficiency (EE) and demand response (DR) programs separately. While the benefits and value of integrated EE/DR programs have long been recognized, ACEEE’s recent research shows that most customer programs still are not integrated. In this presentation Dan York will present results from ACEEE’s review, which characterizes the landscape of integrated EE/DR programs in the US. York also will provide examples of successful programs and discuss how they have overcome challenges to integration.