“change of electricity load by final customers from their normal or current consumption patterns in response to market signals, including in response to time-variable electricity prices or incentive payments, or in response to the acceptance of the final customer’s bid to sell demand reduction or increase at a price in an organised market (…) whether alone or through aggregation”[1]
“Demand-side management (DSM) is the planning and implementation of those utility activities designed to influence customer use of electricity in ways that will produce desired changes in the utility’s load shape – ie, in the time pattern and magnitude of a utility’s load. Utility programs falling under the umbrella of demand-side management include load management, new uses, strategic conservation, electrification, customer generation, and adjustments in market share”[2]
Integrated Resource Planning: “Combined development of electricity supplies and demand-side management (DSM) options to provide energy services at minimum cost, including environmental and social costs.”[3]
“Combined development of electricity supplies and demand-side management (DSM) options to provide energy services at minimum cost, including environmental and social costs.”[3]
“Utility planning method whereby alternative resource mixes, including demand-side options such as conservation and load management, are evaluated along with traditional supply-side options to determine which of them minimizes the overall cost of service. Cost management is used as the criterion for selecting the resource plan for the utility company.”[2]
optimizing both, the use of energy (energy efficiency and management) and the choice of the energy source (e.g. substitution between energy sources).
[1] Directive EU 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 on common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU.
[2] EPRI, 1984. Demand-Side Management Vol. 1: Overview of Key Issues. Report EA/EM-3597 of the Electric Power Research Institute.
[3] Swisher, J. N., de Martino Jannuzzi, G., & Redlinger, R.Y. (1997). Tools and methods for integrated resource planning – Improving energy efficiency and protecting the environment. Working Paper n°7of the UNEP Collaboration Centre on Energy and Environment, November 1997. ISBN 87-550-2332-0
Acronyms
- BTM: Behind-The-Meter
- CBA: Cost-Benefit Analysis
- CCS: Carbon Capture and Storage
- DR: Demand-Response
- DSM: Demand-Side Management
- DSO: Distribution System Operator
- E1st: Energy Efficiency First
- EC: European Commission
- EE: Energy Efficiency
- EED: Energy Efficiency Directive
- EP: European Parliament
- FTM: Front-of-The-Meter
- IRP: Integrated Resource Planning
- LCP: Least-Cost Planning
- MCA: Multi-Criteria Analysis
- NECP: National Energy and Climate Plan
- NEEAP: National Energy Efficiency Action Plan
- M&V: Monitoring & Verification
- MS: Member States (of the European Union)
- RES: Renewable Energy Source
- T&D: Transmission & Distribution
- TSO: Transmission System Operator