Demand Response (DR) is capable of reducing the need for generation capacity investments in order to ensure system … security. We utilise this fact to devise a novel methodology for estimating a load-shifting DR resource's capacity contribution … and therefore determining DR's potential for participation in capacity markets. DR primarily affects the equilibrium …

Service managers are continually challenged with balancing customer demand and service capacity. Recent studies have … raised awareness of various demand and capacity management practices available to services, but little numerical work has … customers about the operation, and others. It is shown that demand and capacity decisions do indeed impact on each other …