This is a collection of white papers and resources from Bruce Nordman about demand flexibility and related topics, including price-based grid coordination and OpenADR 3.0; capacity management; The unified theory of grid coordination; Rethinking grids with local power distribution; DC power; highly dynamic pricing; retail price servers; and dynamic pricing outside of the United States.
White paper example
The Unified Theory of Grid Coordination: Putting the Customer First
by Bruce Nordman
Summary—How to coordinate between the utility grid and customers has been a topic of discussion and deployment for many decades. Among the many mechanisms proposed to manage supply and demand of energy, only pricing and aggregators are on the rise. Cost-effective scalability and interoperability requires global solutions—as we have already experienced with Internet technology. This paper outlines an approach to grid coordination that supports both mechanisms, addresses emerging needs of utility grids to address distribution system capacity, and puts customer choice and benefit as primary.
Also see Bruce Nordman’s Energy Changemakers Livestream Presentation: Putting the Customer First through a Unified Theory of Grid Coordination.
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