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Demand Flexibility and Capacity Management

March 30, 2025
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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.

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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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The Electric Grid is No Longer a Natural Monopoly: California

The electric grid is no longer a natural monopoly and those who think so are “out of step with technical and commercial reality,” said a group of organizations who recently filed comments in the California Public Utilities Commission’s Future Grid Study.

Elisa Wood
electric grid is no longer a natural monopoly

Why So Many Industries Want to Own the Home Energy Management Market

The competition for dominance is just beginning as various industries enter the home energy management space.

Anna Demeo
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What 2025 Holds for Distributed Energy

Trouble and promise seem to characterize what’s ahead for distributed energy. So how should we approach 2025?

Elisa Wood
ahead for distributed energy

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