have offered price and reliability DR based programs to customers to help reduce electric peak demand. The lack of … Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) developed and tested a series of …

connection between system peak demand and system reliability an important driver of public policy in the electric utility sector … surrounding the reliability of electric power systems in restructured markets as well as security worries are the latest reasons … several white papers commissioned in 2002 exploring key issues of relevance to DOE. This paper explores policy-relevant issues …

possible a decade ago. The intent is to improve process operations and equipment reliability, availability, and maintainability …

periods of high generation supply costs or system reliability contingencies. Efforts to introduce DR into retail electricity … markets confront a range of basic policy issues. First, a fundamental issue in any market context is how to organize the … role in developing DR, what types of retail pricing mechanisms are most appropriate and likely to have the desired policy …

down-sizing has resulted in less availability of qualified staff. Future safeguards requirements will necessitate access to … implementation of modern information technology to improve reliability of and accessibility to nuclear materials information. An …

availability, dispatchability, diversity, and reliability of generating alternatives are also considered in the decisionmaking …This study was conducted in response to Section 1205 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT), requiring the U …

focusing its efforts in four interrelated areas: (1) ISO-level reliability programs, (2) Market-based price-responsive load …

emergencies), use of these DR resources to meet planning reserves requirements, DR resource availability (e.g., seasonal, annual … comprehensive survey and discusses policy implications for integrating legacy retail DR programs and dynamic pricing tariffs into … programs are increasingly used by utilities for economic in addition to reliability purposes, with over two-thirds (68percent …