Ed Koch

Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification (Version 1.0)

The development of the Open Automated Demand Response Communications Specification, also known as OpenADR or Open Auto-DR, began in 2002 following the California electricity crisis. The work has been carried out by the Demand Response Research Center (DRRC), which is managed by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This specification describes an open standards-based communications data model designed to facilitate sending and receiving demand response price and reliability signals from a utility or Independent System Operator to electric customers. OpenADR is one element of the Smart Grid information and communications technologies that are being developed to improve optimization between electric supply and demand. The intention of the open automated demand response communications data model is to provide interoperable signals to building and industrial control systems that are preprogrammed to take action based on a demand response signal, enabling a demand response event to be fully automated, with no manual intervention. The OpenADR specification is a flexible infrastructure to facilitate common information exchange between the utility or Independent System Operator and end-use participants. The concept of an open specification is intended to allow anyone to implement the signaling systems, the automation server or the automation clients.

Design and Operation of an Open, Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure for Commercial Buildings

Design and Operation of an Open Interoperable Automated Demand Response Infrastructure for Commercial Buildings Mary Ann Piette, Girish Ghatikar, Sila Kiliccote, David Watson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ed Koch, Dan Hennage Akuacom

Open Automated Demand Response for Small Commerical Buildings

OPEN AUTOMATED DEMAND RESPONSE FOR SMALL COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS Sila Kiliccote Mary Ann Piette June Han Dudley Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ed Koch Dan Hennage Akuacom i

Automated Demand Response Technology Demonstration Project for Small and Medium Commercial Buildings

Author(s): Page, Janie | Abstract: Small and medium commercial customers in California make up about 20-25percent of electric peak load in California. With the roll out of smart meters to this customer group, which enable granular measurement of electricity consumption, the investor-owned utilities will offer dynamic prices as default tariffs by the end of 2011. Pacific Gas and Electric Company, which successfully deployed Automated Demand Response (AutoDR) Programs to its large commercial and industrial customers, started investigating the same infrastructures application to the small and medium commercial customers. This project aims to identify available technologies suitable for automating demand response for small-medium commercial buildings; to validate the extent to which that technology does what it claims to be able to do; and determine the extent to which customers find the technology useful for DR purpose. Ten sites, enabled by eight vendors, participated in at least four test AutoDR events per site in the summer of 2010. The results showed that while existing technology can reliably receive OpenADR signals and translate them into pre-programmed response strategies, it is likely that better levels of load sheds could be obtained than what is reported here if better understanding of the building systems were developed and the DR response strategies had been carefully designed and optimized for each site.

Evaluation of Alternative Field Buses for Lighting ControlApplications

Evaluation of Alternative Field Buses for Lighting Control Applications Prepared By: Ed Koch, Akua Controls Edited By: Francis Rubinstein, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Prepared For: Broadata Communications Torrence, CA March 21, 2005