OpenEAC Alliance Q4 Meeting Agenda
Thursday, November 20, 11am ET, 8am PT
Demand flexibility has taken center stage over the past six months, as it has become clear that datacenters will require both massive amounts of new power as well as unprecedented grid flexibility in the years to come. The days of traditional demand response are over. Now, we’re looking at the potential for entirely new energy markets organized around demand-side energy resources.
Utility demand response programs and wholesale markets tend to favor aggregated settlement based on fairly primitive measurement and verification protocols (like five in ten baselines). These work when the stakes are low. But if we’re going to count on demand side energy resources to keep the lights on (and the cat videos streaming), we have to get serious about better M&V and systems of record that allow transactions to clear independently.
Last month, WattCarbon introduced two methodologies for calculating demand flexibility impacts using whole building meter data: demand response and load shifting. Demand response is when energy consumption is reduced relative to a baseline when induced by an outside trigger; load shifting is when energy consumption is moved from one time of day to another relative to an existing baseline.
There will be other niche methodologies required, but these two are the most important for accurately calculating the impacts of dispatchable demand-side energy resources. Over the past six weeks, we’ve been receiving feedback and comments and are ready to formally submit into the list of OpenEAC Alliance methodologies.
The quarterly meeting time will feature a review of both of these and reserve time for questions and answers.
Meeting details:
OpenEAC Alliance Quarterly Call
Thursday, November 20 · 8:00 – 8:50am
Time zone: America/Los_Angeles
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-xnjg-swr
Or dial: (US) +1 413-752-1090 PIN: 108 833 115#
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Hope to see all of you there!