Council resources
The Ninth Power Plan DR Potential Presentations and Workbooks (2025)
(under Resources on technical elements page)
- Demand Response overview
- Demand Response in the 2021 Power Plan (published 2022)
Other resources
Reports and Publications:
Virtual Power Plants: Insights, Profiles and Inventory – LBNL (2025)
The State of Demand Flexibility Programs and Rates – LBNL (2024)
The State of Managed Charging – SEPA (2024)
Price-Based Demand Response as a Resource in Electricity System Planning – LBNL (2024)
2024 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering – FERC (2024)
Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources in 2024 – NARUC (2024)
Introducing Time-Varying Rates in the Pacific Northwest – American Public Power Association (2024)
Real Reliability: The Value of Virtual Power Summary Report – Brattle Group (2023)
Demand Flexibility of Water Heaters – ACEE (2023)
Physically Realistic Estimates of Electric Water Heater Demand Response Resource – NREL (2022)
Organizations & projects:
- Department of Energy demand response page
- National action plan for demand response
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s demand response research center
- Regulatory Assistance Project: Demand response as a power system resource
- California Commercial End Use Survey (data on commercial loads)
- FERC Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering (updated annually)
- OpenADR Alliance: Open Automated Demand Response Standards
Older archived reports and publications:
- CPUC Working Group on Load Shift Report (2019)
- Grid Ready Water Heater Webinar (2018), Video and PPTX Available
- RAP Paper on Smart Non-Residential Rate Design (2017)
- BPA Demand Response Home Page
- Assessment of Barriers to DR in the NW Public Power Sector (2018)
- Demand Response Potential in Bonneville Power Administration’s Public Utility Service Area (2018)
- Demand Response Elasticities Analysis - BPA (2018)
- BPA 2018 Distributed Energy Resource Benchmarking Report (2019)
- BPA 2017 Distributed Energy Resource Benchmarking Report (2017)
- BPA 2016 Distributed Energy Resource Benchmarking Report (2016)
- Energy Northwest and Bonneville Power Administration Commercial Aggregator Demonstration Final Report (2016)
- Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project - Compilation of Success Stories (2014)
- BPA Smart Grid Home Page
- BPA Smart Grid Regional Business Case for the NW (2013)
- SEPA/Navigant - 2018 Utility Demand Response Market Snapshot (2018)
- A Proposed Cost-Effectiveness Approach for Demand Response - Navigant/PGE (2016)
- Draft Phase II report of the 2015 Demand Response Potential Study, LBNL, (link leads to CA Public Utilities Commission page)
- CAISO EE and DR Roadmap (2013)
- Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering - FERC (2013)
- LBNL Report on Market and Policy Barriers for DR providing Ancillary Services (2013)
- Smart End-use Energy Storage and Integration of Renewable Energy (2012)
- IBM's FlexLast Project in Switzerland (2012)
- Mason County PUD No. 3 Renewable Demand Response Pilot (2012)
- LBNL Report on Fast Automated DR for Ancillary Services (2012)
- LBNL Mass Market DR and VG Integration (2011)
- Utilizing Load Response for Wind and Solar Integration and Power System Reliability (2010)