Posts from — August 2010

This was presented at the 2005 International Energy program Evaluation Conference in NYC. The abstract is shown here, with a link to the complete paper below. (There’s a link to the conference presentation as well.)

ABSTRACT

Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (Con Edison), in cooperation with the New York State Public Service Commission (NYPSC) and other state agencies, has been working to address their growing summer peak, most recently through control of residential and small commercial Central A/C systems via a two-way system for thermostat control. Con Edison performed an assessment, implemented a pilot program and full-scale rollout of this technology, which communicates with the Central A/C thermostat via two-way pager, and enables features such as confirming feedback, recordable customer overrides, monitoring and thermostat access via internet by both customer and utility, utility control of either thermostat setpoint or duty cycle limit, and collection of hourly runtime and temperature data for virtually all units.

This paper presents background on the program, lessons learned, and impacts from the perspective of both the utility and the participants, including kW impacts and customer satisfaction.

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Presented at the AEIC Annual Conference in 2003 for Westar, this examines contribution of school loads to system peak, as related to regulatory inquiry.

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This is a summary of several projects involving technical research and evaluation for advanced metering, demand response, thermostat control and sub-metering.

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This is another presentation co-authored with Herbert Hirschfeld and presented at the Multifamily Buildings Conference in Brooklyn, NY July 2008.

Its title is “NYSERDA R&D: Time-Sensitive Pricing Demonstration: Advanced Metering, TOU Pricing and Technologies for Multifamily Buildings.”

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I presented this paper back in 2000 at the AEIC Load Research Conference. The introduction is shown here, with a link to the complete paper below. (There’s a link to the 2000 AEIC Load Research Conference presentation as well.)

INTRODUCTION

Load Research has had a long and varied history, having been carried on the coattails of a variety of applications since the early days of Load Research in the 1960’s and 1970’s. With the collection of load data associated with load research came the need for quality assessment, decisions on how (and whether) to fix problem data and, once data was sufficiently clean, expanding results to the population, whether the load data represented one customer or part of a group representing tens of thousands.

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“Is it On? Impact of Duty Cycles on A/C Control Strategies” is a presentation I delivered at the 2002 Annual AEIC Load Research Conference in Las Vegas, NV.

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Here is a presentation I gave at the New York chapter of the AEE back in 2007. It was co-authored by Herbert Hirschfeld.

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This is a presentation I gave at the AEIC Load Research Conference – St. Louis, MO in July 2004, with updates included as of 2008.

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I presented at the Aug 2008 AEIC Load Research Conference in Oklahoma City, OK “Time of Use for Old-Timers.”