Technology Meeting

This meeting focused on the technologies that are applicable to buildings and could provide value as a demand response (DR) technology. The meeting will explore the characteristics that make a technology a DR resource (electric load reduction at the time of system or local capacity needs, dispatchability does not have to provide substantial annual energy reductions) as well as the characteristics that would affect the value of that technology (predictability of impacts; level of customer participation needed to attain reductions; persistence of reductions; limitations on duration, frequency and cumulative operations; and degradation of reductions during periods of need). The meeting will also delve deep into issues related to specification, implementation costs, production levels, and rollout requirements of programmable controllable thermostats (PCTs) as well as similar issues related to other possible DR technologies.
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PCTs

 There are 6,000,000 homes with air conditioning in California. Utilities are exploring the possibility of installing programmable communicating thermostats and interval meters to monitor and, eventually, to reduce load.

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