Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition Comments on NERC Report.WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition (DRAM) announced that its members are ready to support the call issued by the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Electricity Reliability Council (NERC NERC Natural Environment Research Council (UK) NERC North American Electric Reliability Corporation (Princeton, New Jersey, USA) NERC Northeast Recycling Council NERC National Environment Research Council ) for more demand response as a means of addressing the electricity shortages that NERC indicates are possible in the coming years. The Annual Report issued by NERC yesterday in Washington is the first such Report issued by the organization since its designation as the national reliability organization, a step required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The new Report not only assesses the adequacy of the nation's electricity system in the coming years but makes recommendations as to how to address capacity constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 14(1):1-39 (Aug 1980)]. . One of the top recommendations of the Report is for more demand response to be deployed, whereby customers would be provided with price signals or incentives to reduce or shift their electricity usage during peak demand periods. Frank Magnotti, President and COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. of Comverge, Inc.'s Alternative Energy Resources Group and Vice-Chairman of the DRAM Coalition, said, "While demand response is still a new term to some, it is not a new industry. There are a number of companies that offer services and technologies that enable demand response options to be offered to customers. These options, when deployed by customers, not only reduce the strain on the nation's electricity system during peak demand periods with an environmentally clean solution, but also provide customers with new choices, information and tools that allow them to be more energy-efficient users overall". Magnotti added "Technologies such as advanced metering, and the demand response programs that incorporate them, have been increasingly utilized by electricity providers in recent years. Fast deployment, system responsiveness, promptness of customers to modify their use, and other key aspects of demand response have been demonstrated widely across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. using various business models." The Demand Response and Advanced Metering Coalition is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to education and outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. in the area of demand response and its enabling technologies. Its members include: Cellnet, Comverge, Echelon, Elster Electricity, eMeter, EnergySolve, EnerNOC, ESCO ESCO Energy Service Company ESCO Estonian Shipping Company ESCO Esfahan Steel Company (Iran) ESCO Electric Steel Company, Inc. ESCO Eastern Sydney Chamber Orchestra (Australia) Technologies, Hunt Technologies, Itron, Landis + Gyr, Sensus, Silver Spring Networks, and SmartSynch. More information is available at www.dramcoalition.org. For more information on this release, please contact Liz Purvinis at 781.756.1010. |
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