Dec. 28, 2012: Leading California Utilities Embrace Open Automated Demand Response Standard
IRVING, Texas — The OpenADR Alliance, a nonprofit corporation created to foster the development, adoption, and compliance of the Open Automated Demand Response (OpenADR) smart grid standard, announced that California investor owned utilities plan to require the OpenADR 2.0 standard for new customers in their Demand Response (DR) Enabling Technology programs in 2013. Pacific Gas & Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric, and Southern California Edison will add OpenADR 2.0 certified products to support locational dispatch of emergency and price DR, allowing them to better manage peak demand without the need for new power plants.
OpenADR is an open global standard designed to enable electricity providers and system operators to automatically communicate DR signals with each other and their customers using a common language over any existing IP-based communications network. OpenADR automates and simplifies customer DR participation, to improve DR event results.