Today's challenge
Climate change is generally regarded as one of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world today.
The earth is warming up, mainly due to man-made greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, produced by the burning of fossil fuels for transport and energy. The challenge we face is to use energy as efficiently as we can.
Automated Demand Response (DR) directly addresses some of these challenges: it allows energy suppliers & transmission grid operators to look to energy users to relieve the energy market and the grid of excess demand at critical times, while stimulating energy efficiency.
Historically, energy companies have activated fast reacting power plants to eliminate grid imbalances. This is expensive and emits vast amounts of CO2.
Today, automated Demand Response (DR) is increasingly used to balance the grid, emitting less CO2 and at lower cost.
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