Demand response
OverviewBackgroundElectricity pricingElectricity grids and peak demand responseLoad sheddingSmart grid applicationApplication for intermittent renewable distributed energy resourcesTechnologies for demand reduction
Demand response is a change in the power consumption of an electric utility customer to better match the demand for power with the supply. Until the 21st century decrease in the cost of pumped storage and batteries, electric energy could not be easily stored, so utilities have traditionally matched demand and supply by throttling the production rate of their power plants, taking generating units on or off line, or importing power fro