SEDC General AssemblyRESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS ISSUES: SEGREGATION & AGGREGATION 3rd December 2012, Brussels

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Consumer Empowerment “Triad”1. Energy Information Feedback

• Next day, online (e.g. Green Button)

• Real-time via HAN interface

• Authorized sharing with third parties

2. Pricing Options

• Time-based

• Prepayment

3. Automation

• “Set-and-forget” devices and systems

• Programmed response to price signals

Information

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Pricing Options

Smart Grid Consumer Empowerment Triad

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Usage by appliance interest

Information empowers choiceEnhanced information has been shown to help customers manage energy with knowledge of the cost implications of their choices.

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Relation of Value to Cost

Benchmarks

Control/ Options

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Bottom-up study, understanding what’s dispatchable.

Planning Smart Demand requires a detailed bottom-up model of individual household appliance consumption. Will a more detailed picture of house loads, identifying dispatchable potential, by time and demographic will better inform policy makes and industry for better strategies?Alertme, is carrying out a Study where eMeter has participated, that try to capture a data set, that look only to the household factors that matter to the grid, looking at detailed electricity consumption.

ECUK mapped onto Smart DemandCategories

How to engage residential consumers?

TRIAD: Information, Price and Automation

How to understand consumers and identify dispatchable potential?

Segmentation on demographics (high consumptions rates and financial aid or special care to vulnerable consumers ) and also understanding potential

What we need:

- Segregation: bottom up model of individual households appliances

- Aggregation: active offer services to specific segments