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Early last week, FERC published the Implementation Proposal for The National Action Plan on Demand Response, the combined efforts of the staff of FERC and the DOE to “study and develop a process to achieve the Nation’s demand response potential.”
This implementation proposal comprises the third and final action mandated by section 529 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA). FERC’s first step, the National Assessment of Demand Response Potential, was released in 2009, and was quickly followed by the 2010 National Action Plan.
EISA authorized “to be appropriated to the Commission to carry out this section not more than $10,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010.”
According to FERC, “effective demand response can help reduce electric price volatility, mitigate generation market power, and enhance reliability,” so I’ll just assume that those 30 million dollars were worth it.
