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The New England Demand Response Initiative ('NEDRI') was a multi-party stakeholder process
funded by US EPA, US DOE, and ISO-New England. Its goal was to include the
region's ISO, state utility and environmental regulators, power generators and
marketers, utilities, consumer and environmental advocates, and other
stakeholder groups to develop a
comprehensive, coordinated set of demand response programs for the New England
regional power markets. In evaluating the options for Demand Response in
New
England, NEDRI considered market rules, reliability standards, and regulatory
criteria to incorporate a demand response capability into the electricity
wholesale and retail markets, arriving at best practices and coordinated
policy initiatives, but being careful not to replace the functions that the
ISO and other organizations must perform to design and implement demand-side
programs.
NEDRI was a joint project of the Regulatory Assistance Project, who provided technical
consulting and Raab Associates, Ltd. who facilitated the stakeholder process.
NEDRI met 16 times in plenary sessions between Feb 2002 and July 2003, with
several working groups drafting specific chapters between meetings. Below you
will find NEDRI’s final report, as well as links to several background
documents the group drew from on topics related to Demand Response.
For more NEDRI reports, see the
NEDRI website
New England Demand Response
Initiative
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Modeling Demand Response and Air Emissions in New England
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| Geoff Keith, Bruce Biewald, David White and Mike Drunsic September 2004
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In January 2003 Synapse began work to assess the potential emissions impacts of demand response (DR) and energy efficiency programs in New England. Synapse performed this work under subcontract to Eastern Research Group, funded by the U.S. EPA. EPA funded this project largely to inform the work of the New England Demand Response Initiative (NEDRI), a collaborative process designed to develop recommendations for expanding DR programs in New England.
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Dimensions of Demand Response: Capturing Customer Based Resources in New England’s Power Systems and Markets
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| Richard Cowart, Jonathan Raab, et al. July 2003
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The overall objective of NEDRI has been to devise an effective long-term strategy for demand
responsiveness in New England's power systems and markets, including load response resources and efficiency investments. NEDRI participants envision a regional economy and environment enhanced by a more productive and less wasteful electricity system, and one that is more reliable and more vigorous due to broad-based competition among both supply-side and customer-located resources. A principal lesson of NEDRI’s investigations is the realization that “demand response” is not a one-dimensional concept, but rather a multi-faceted set of resources that can provide value to electric systems and markets in a variety of ways.
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Technical Issues Related to Retail-Load Provision of Ancillary Services
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| Brendan Kirby & Eric Hrist February 2002
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| PDF 283KB |
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Responsive load is the most underutilized reliability resource available to the power system. It is currently not used at all to supply spinning reserve. This background issues paper discusses the technical requirements for load, or any resource, to provide contingency reserves to the electric power system.
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Power System Planning and Investment
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| NEDRI March 2003
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| PDF 211KB |
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This Chapter focuses on the role that Demand Response resources can play in resolving
reliability and congestion problems across the wires networks serving New England at
both the regional and local levels. Restructuring, divestiture, and competition have
changed the historic relationships between those who own and manage the regional
power grid, those who manage local distribution networks, and those who supply electric
power to customers. New system planning and investment strategies are needed in this
new environment, and those strategies should be designed to incorporate demand
response resources, which can offer low-cost, distributed solutions to reliability and congestion problems.
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Opportunities for Demand Participation in New England Contingency-Reserve Markets
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| New England Demand Response Initiative February 2003
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| PDF 179KB |
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This paper deals with the issues and opportunities New England faces in getting retail
loads to provide some of the real-power ancillary services and to participate in the markets
for these services. The paper focuses on the three contingency reserves that are deployed
throughout the Northeast: 10-minute spinning reserve, 10-minute nonspinning
(supplemental) reserve, and 30-minute (replacement) reserve. The paper explains what these
services are, the technical and reliability requirements imposed on resources that provide
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Long-term Resource Adequacy: Demand Response Options for New England
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| New England Demand Response Initiative November 2002
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How can ISO New England best encourage demand resources to qualify as long-term
resources (LTRs), and what criteria should such resources meet? A key principle to consider
in assessing alternative approaches is to ensure comparability# in treatment of demand and
supply resources.
In deciding how to encourage demand resources to participate in long-term resourceadequacy
programs, it might help to view the LTR requirements as an umbrella under which
existing (and future) demand-response programs fit. That is, a regionwide LTR requirement
need not engender the creation of new demand-response programs.
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Technical Issues Related to Retail-Load Provision of Ancillary Services
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| Brendan Kirby & Eric Hrist February 2002
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| PDF 283KB |
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Responsive load is the most underutilized reliability resource available to the power system. It is currently not used at all to supply spinning reserve. This background issues paper discusses the technical requirements for load, or any resource, to provide contingency reserves to the electric power system.
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New England Demand Response Initiative: Program Overview
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| New England Demand Response Initiative June 2002
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| PDF 101KB |
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The New England Demand Response Initiative is developing a comprehensive,
coordinated set of demand response programs for New England’s regional power
markets. The Initiative is a broad-based, facilitated process among public and private
decision-makers in the region’s markets for power and demand response. Participants
include the region’s Independent System Operator; the six state public utility
commissions; power generators, marketers and customers; technology experts; and EPA
and the region’s state environmental regulators.
The ultimate aim of the NEDRI process is a power system that is more competitive, more
productive, more reliable, and better for the environment, due to better market rules and
greater investments in load response capability and energy efficiency throughout the
region.
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