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Phase 1 Results: Incentives and Rate Design for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response
March 2006
This framework is in the form of a set of screens that can objectively answer fundamental questions regarding proposed new demand response (DR) designs, and provide a mechanism to increase understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of DR rate design alternatives. Phase_1_Results_Incentives_d_Rate_Design_for_Energy_Efficien.pdf Phase_II.pdf Phase_1_Results_Incentives_d_Rate_Design_for_Energy_Efficien.pdf Appendix.pdf Appendix Collaborative Report.pdf
S1: AMI System Recovers after Outage, Communications or Equipment Failure
March 2006
This use case describes how the Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) system returns to its normal operating state after a communications or equipment failure and attempts to classify the failure cause to optimize the recovery response.
ANSI C12.18-2006/IEEE P1701/MC1218 - Protocol Specification for ANSI Type 2 Optical Port
March 2006
This document contains the ANSI C12.18-2006 standard details which present the criteria required for communications between a C12.18 device and a C12.18 client via an optical port.
Development of a Comprehensive / Integrated DR Value Framework
March 2006
This report addresses the research and development objectives of the Research Opportunity Notice RON 1 issued by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC). The DRRC defines Demand Response (DR) as actions taken to reduce load when contingencies (emergencies and congestion) occur that threaten the supply-demand balance, and/or market conditions occur that raise supply costs.
I3: Utility Upgrades AMI System to Address Future Requirements
March 2006
This use case describes how the Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) must be able to adapt to certain kinds of anticipated changes that may occur.
D4: Distribution Operator Locates Outage Using AMI Data and Restores Service
March 2006
This use case describes how the Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) system offers opportunities for enhancing a utility's ability to identify and rectify outages.
Demand Response: An Introduction Overview of Programs, Technologies, & Lessons Learned
March 2006
This paper examines the challenges of implementing demand-side management programs, chronicles some Demand Response (DR) experiences to date, and illustrates how various barriers to successful DR programs can be overcome.
Automated Critical Peak Pricing Field Tests: Program Description and Results
March 2006
This report focuses on and discusses the specific results of the Automated Critical Peak Pricing (Auto-CPP, a specific type of Auto-DR) tests that took place during 2005, which build on the automated Demand Response (Auto-DR) research conducted through Public Interest Energy Research Program (PIER) and the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) in 2003 and 2004. Appendix: This is the Appendices of Automated Critical Peak Pricing Field Tests: Program Description and Results. 1858-automated-critical-peak-pricing-field-tests-appendices-4-2006.pdf
D2: Distribution Engineering or Operations Optimize Network based on Data Collected by the AMI System
March 2006
This use case describes how the utility uses feedback from the Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) system to both improve customer power quality and reduce distribution costs to the utility.
D1: Distribution Operations Curtails Customer Load for Grid Management
March 2006
This use case describes how a non-price responsive demand-side grid management program (possibly in exchange for reduced tariffs) allows the utility to request an automated load reduction at the customer site.
D3: Customer Installs and Uses Distributed Generation
March 2006
This use case will walk through customer enrollment in a utility-sponsored DG program with the utility programming the meter to support net metering.
SPP Program Final Report: Additional Control Technologies (ACT) for Small/Medium Commercial Customers
March 2006
This final report in a PowerPoint format on the Additional Control Technologies for Small/Medium Commercial Customers pilot program of Southern California Edison Company prepared by Lockheed Martin Aspen.
I2: Utility Manages End-to-End Life-Cycle of the Meter System
March 2006
This use case describes how an Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) system is never static; equipment is continuously being acquired, maintained, tested, replaced and retired.
I1: Utility Installs, Provisions and Configures AMI System
March 2006
This use case describes the process of setting up an Advanced Meter Infrastructure (AMI) system, which involves many processes ranging from developing a deployment plan through forecasting and procurement, installation of individual devices, initialization of tariffs, setting meter operating parameters, entering and verifying information in inventory, customer and geographic databases, verification of communications, and other functional testing.
Phase 1 Results: Establish the Value of Demand Response
March 2006
Demand response (DR) offers potential economic and reliability benefits to consumers and utilities, by reducing peak electrical demand at times when cost of supply is high or reserve margins are low. This record also contains the appendix to the results of work done on DR Valuation (DRRC RON-01) in Phase 1 to prepare the Phase 2 research proposal. This proposal describes the work performed in response to the Demand Response Research Center's Research Opportunity Notice DRRC RON-02, Incentives and Rate Design for Energy Efficiency and Demand Response. A research team led by Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3) creates, and validates as a proof of concept, an analytical framework for evaluating incentives and rate design for demand response. phase-1-results-dr-appendix.pdf
ANSI C12.21-2006/IEEE P1702/MC1221 - Protocol Specification for Telephone Modem Communication
March 2006
This document contains the details of the standard - ANSI C12.21-2006 which details the criteria required for communications between a C12.21 device and a C12.21 client via a modem connected to the switched telephone network.
Incentives and Rate Designs for Efficiency and Demand Response
February 2006
This report develops a conceptual framework for designing retail electricity rate structures that provide appropriate incentives for energy efficiency and Demand Response. Document 1776: This framework is in the form of a set of screens that can objectively answer fundamental questions regarding proposed new demand response (DR) designs, and provide a mechanism to increase understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of DR rate design alternatives. Document 1778: This document presents the results of work done on DR Rate Design (DRRC RON-02) in Phase I to prepare the Phase 2 research proposal. Incentives_Rate_Design_for_Efficiency_Demand_Response_200612.pdf 1776-phase-1-results-efficiency-and-dr.pdf 1778-phase-1-results-efficiency-and-dr-appendix.pdf
Minimum Security Requirements for Federal Information and Information Systems
February 2006
This standard is applicable to: (i) all information within the federal government other than that information that has been determined pursuant to Executive Order 12958, as amended by Executive Order 13292, or any predecessor order, or by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, to require protection against unauthorized disclosure and is marked to indicate its classified status; and (ii) all federal information systems other than those information systems designated as national security systems as defined in 44 United States Code Section 3542(b)(2).
B3: Utility Detects Tampering or Theft at Customer Site
February 2006
This use case scenario describes the process by which the utility detects tamper/theft through communication with the meter.
Automated Demand Response System Pilot, Volume 1 Intro & Exec Summary
February 2006
This report summarizes the load impact results of residential customers equipped with the Automated Demand Response System (ADRS) through the summer of 2005.
Benefits of Demand Response in Electricity Markets and Recommendations for Achieving Them: A Report to the United States Congress Pursuant to Section 1253 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005
January 2006
This document is the report to the United States Congress Pursuant to Section 1253 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Sections 1252(e) and (f) of the U.S. Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPACT) state that it is the policy of the United States to encourage time-based pricing and other forms of Demand Response
Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for Commercial and Industrial Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies
January 2006
This document conducts a comparative review of eight case study states where real time pricing (RTP) has been implemented as a default and/or optional service for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers.
B2: Utility Remotely Limits Usage and/or Connects and Disconnects Customer
January 2006
This use case scenario describes how the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system can be used to control the connectivity of individual customers.
Cost of Power Interruptions to Electricity Consumers in the United States
January 2006
The massive electric power blackout in the northeastern U.S. and Canada on August 14-15, 2003 catalyzed discussions about modernizing the U.S. electricity grid. Industry sources suggested that investments of $50 to $100 billion would be needed. This work seeks to better understand an important piece of information that has been missing from these discussions: what do power interruptions and fluctuations in power quality (power-quality events) cost electricity consumers?
B4: Contract Meter Reading (or Meter Reading for other Utilities)
January 2006
This ucase case scenario describes how the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) system can be used to interface with non-electrical metering functions such as water and gas.
