Categories: Demand Response, Innovative Electricity Pricing, Market Design, Pricing, Rate Design
February 24, 2016
In the 1990s, proponents of retail choice projected lower retail prices and innovative products and services. Through a review of studies covering a wide range of retail choice issues, Drs. Morey and Kirsch found a mixed set of outcomes that suggest retail choice has delivered only a small part of its advertised benefits.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen and Tim Huegerich
CA Energy Consulting reported on ex post and ex ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Base Interruptible Program (“BIP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documented the results of a load impact evaluation of aggregator-based demand response (“DR”) programs operated by the three California investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas and Electric (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric (“SDG&E”) for Program Year 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting conducted ex-post and ex-ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Demand Side Management, Distributed Energy Resources, Pricing, Rate Design
January 6, 2015
Mat Morey and Laurence Kirsch describe the principles and elements of a retail pricing structure that can be applied to all electricity consumers regardless of whether they have their own distributed energy resources.
Categories: Demand Response
Steve Braitwait presented on the roles of dynamic pricing programs and demand response programs at WPUI's Energy Utility Basics Course.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2014 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documented ex post and ex ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2013.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2014 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
This second volume of the aggregator program evaluation report for program-year 2013 contains an analysis of the performance of the current program baseline methods and of a number of potential alternative baseline methods. The baseline analysis was ordered in the CPUC decision regarding DR activities and budgets for 2012 through 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2014 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documents the results of a load impact evaluation of aggregator demand response (“DR”) programs operated by the three California investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas and Electric (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric (“SDG&E”) for Program Year 2013.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documents the results of a load impact evaluation of aggregator demand response ("DR") programs operated by the three California investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas and Electric ("PG&E"), Southern California Edison ("SCE"), and San Diego Gas and Electric ("SDG&E") for Program-Year 2012.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting presents a load impact evaluation of the PeakChoice Program offered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”) in 2012.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 31, 2012 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for SDG&E’s Peak-time Rebate pilot program. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2012 through 2021.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 29, 2012 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2012 through 2022.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
March 3, 2012 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Summer Discount Program in place at Southern California Edison.
Categories: Demand Response, Pricing
July 25, 2011
Steve Braithwait will discuss “Designing Efficient Electricity Rates” and “Evidence of Customer Response to Dynamic Pricing” at the EEI Rates Advanced Course on July 25-26 in Madison, WI.
Categories: Demand Response
May 15, 2011
Steve Braithwait will moderate "Evaluating Customer Response to Alternative Retail Rate Structures" at the 2011 Internation Energy Program Evaluation Conference in Boston.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
March 29, 2011 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Aggregator demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2011 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
October 27, 2010 - Dan Hansen
This study identifies commercial and industrial customers with highly volatile loads and explores their experience in demand response programs offered by the three California investor-owned electric utilities.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
September 17, 2010 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
This study estimated the load impacts from customers in SDG&E’s Participating Load Pilot Program.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 21, 2010 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Aggregator demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2010 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 19, 2010 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the non-residential Critical Peak Pricing demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2010 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 1, 2010 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2010 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 30, 2009 - Dave Armstrong
This study evaluates the effectiveness of alternative baseline methods used to estimate customer response to demand response programs.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 1, 2009 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Aggregator demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2009 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 29, 2009 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the non-residential Critical Peak Pricing demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2009 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 29, 2009 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2009 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
August 15, 2008 - Dan Hansen
This study evaluates customer response to two demand response programs operated by the three investor-owned utilities in California. It includes estimated demand response for the 2007 program year of the critical-peak pricing (CPP) rates and the demand-bidding programs (DBP) offered to non-residential customers.