Sidebar: Demand-Response Resources

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Program publishes information on energy-incentive programs on a state-by-state basis but it also publishes demand-response and load-management programs. Learn more about state-level opportunities at: www.eere.energy.gove/femp/financing/energyinceptiveprograms.html.

For example, the program provides listings for public energy-efficiency programs available in Wisconsin, as well as distributed-energy resource programs. But the bulk of the listings cover demand-response programs from major utility companies: WE Energies, Xcel, Wisconsin Public Service Corp., Alliant and Madison Gas and Electric.

Also, the U.S. Green Building Council offers a program that pairs demand-response planning with LEED certification. It is called the Demand-Response Partnership Program, and consists of two parts — market-related and research-focused.

The market goals include:

• Drive adoption of demand response in institutional and commercial buildings and facilitate their participation in grid-reliability and smart-grid initiatives.
• Reduce dependency on fossil-fuel peak generation.
• Address electric-grid infrastructure and reliability needs, and act as a balancing agent for renewable generation.

Research goals of the program include:

• Develop an understanding of economic and environmental benefits of demand response and impacts
  on grid reliability.
• Track and improve the persistence and repeatability of demand response.
• Develop peak-demand and demand-response benchmarking.
• Assess the current and future technologies and products that buildings, utilities and vendors require
  to drive further adoption of demand response.

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