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Flexibility for Demand Response Programs

The Silver Spring Smart Energy Platform enables utilities to directly connect with their customers and empower them to optimize their energy efficiency program to balance cost, comfort, and convenience while reducing peak load.

Reducing peak loads and deferring additional generation capacity are key initiatives for most smart utility networks. Demand Response (DR) programs that stimulate adoption, penetration, and retention provide the framework for realizing those peak load goals.

The network interfaces within Silver Spring-equipped meters deliver network connectivity into the home to enable communications with devices. Silver Spring supports the Zigbee Smart Energy specification for Home Area Network (HAN) devices. The company has also initiated a HAN certification program to ensure end-to-end interoperability with in-home devices and the utilities’ Demand Response programs.

Utilities initiate pricing events or load control message from within the UtilityIQ application suite, which manages communication over the smart grid network and to devices in the home. With this full two-way solution, utilities can view message status and reports that highlight the effectiveness of the Demand Response program. The CustomerIQ web portal offers consumers an immediate view into their usage patterns and allows them to set their Demand Response program preferences via the Internet.

By leveraging Silver Spring’s end-to-end Demand Response solution, utilities can leverage their investment in the Advanced Metering network and extend it to Demand Response applications to reduce cost and improve the reliability of the smart grid.

Reducing peak load — Simply Smarter.