Ramesh Hariharan

Demand Response - A Changing Landscape

Demand Response has been called the killer-app for Smart Grids. It affects the various stakeholders in different ways. The perspectives of utilities, power aggregators, large customers and residential customers are in widely variance. Technology and solution providers have tried to keep pace with the changing landscape, even while the market driven pricing adds to complexities for implementation. The standards and policy making bodies are looking at Demand Response from a different angle. This talk addresses a position review of the changing landscape in the light of new developments that are taking place in the industry.