ohmconnect cleanweb meetup
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Ohmconnect presentation for the Cleanweb meetup in San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/CleanwebSF/TRANSCRIPT
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1. What is “Demand Response”?
2. What is Ohmconnect?
Agenda
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Demand response flavors: past, present, future
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Birth of DR: California energy crisis of 2000/2001
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• Rolling blackouts in June 2000
• Supply outstripped demand
• Needed immediate solutions to
prevent further blackouts
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Economic explanation behind rolling blackouts
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Price of Electricity
Quantity of Electricity
Price of Electricity
Quantity of Electricity
Prior Peak Period S&D curves Blackout S&D curves
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DR was born from CEC’s plan to combat blackouts
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• California Energy Commission’s (CEC) Art Rosenfeld led a
call for “Demand Relief” programs
• OBMC – optional binding mandatory curtailment
• EPRI, Silicon Valley, Cisco, HP, IBM, others participated to
show that they can shave off 10MW out of 100MW
• How?
• Lighting, Air conditioning, Refrigeration, others
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Implementing DR in 2001 – Oracle
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Smart meters
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• Monthly readers
• AMR (Automatic
Meter Reading)
• AMI (Advanced
metering
infrastructure)
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“Locational” Marginal Price (LMP) markets
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Price
Quantity
Price
Quantity
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The result is much more granularity and insights into when
energy is expensive
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Utility Price
15% of costs come from <1% of hours
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Ohmconnect provides cutting edge demand response
techniques
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1. What is “Demand Response”?
2. What is Ohmconnect?
Agenda
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Ohmconnect Vision
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Stabilize grid
via residential
demand response
Financially reward
users for participating
in events
Engage users
via household analysis
and comparisons
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No hardware: our software connects existing products to
the grid
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Our product combines personal energy analysis,
community, and a generic point system
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Energy Analysis Community Action Gamified Goals
