Demand flexibility definition
Demand flexibility means the capacity of demand-side loads
Demand flexibility means the capability provided by building controls or distributed energy resources to reduce, shed, shift, modulate or generate electricity. Energy flexibility and load flexibility are often used interchangeably with demand flexibility.
Demand flexibility means the capacity of demand-side loads to change their consumption patterns hourly or on another timescale.
More Definitions of Demand flexibility
Demand flexibility means the capacity of demand-side loads that can vary their consumption patterns hourly or on another timescale to help integrate higher amounts of renewable energy resulting in making electricity more affordable to consumers with the co-benefits of reducing or deferring system costs;
Demand flexibility means the ability to help utilities manage or balance load by shifting electricity use across hours of the day to reshape customer load profiles or dynamically respond to system conditions while delivering end-use services (e.g., air conditioning, domestic hot water, electric vehicle charging) at the same or better quality and delivering net benefits to the system, customers, or society. Demand flexibility often uses distributed energy resources, communication and/or control technologies.
Demand flexibility means changes in electricity usage by end-use customers from their normal consumption patterns in response to changing market conditions, especially changes in the price of electricity over time, or to incentive payments designed to induce lower electricity use at times of high wholesale market prices or when system reliability is jeopardised.