Firm Load Dispatch℠: Rethinking the DR Load Curve
Matt Johnson
VP, Business Development
Ben Hertz-Shargel
VP, Analytics
Agenda
•  About EnergyHub
•  Rethinking demand response
•  Firm Load Dispatch℠: DR as generation
•  From thermal batteries to firm load
•  Questions
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EnergyHub provides DR for connected devices
And many
more
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30 utility programs across North America
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Addressing the confidence gap with DR
•  Undesirable load shape
•  Over-shed, then decay
•  Weather dependence
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Firm Load Dispatch℠: DR as generation
Fixed
reduction
Without Firm Load Dispatch
With Firm Load Dispatch
•  Achieves maximal reduction sustainable throughout event
•  Dispatches like generation asset
•  Ensures customer comfort at all moments
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Leveraging homes as thermal batteries
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From thermal modeling to firm load
Maximum sustainable MW yield
Self-correcting control strategy
Step 3: Execution
Maintain load via real-time
corrective control
Step 2: Planning
Optimize and dispatch control strategy
Step 1: Modeling
Learn thermal model of each home over time
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Visualizing a firm load event
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Firm Load Dispatch℠ is DR as generation
What FLD does
How you benefit
Achieves maximum
sustained reduction
Higher value per asset
Guarantees customer
comfort
Higher satisfaction and
retention
Bankable resource
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Questions?
Matt Johnson
VP, Business Development
[email protected]
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