Working Group on Demand Response
Working Group on Demand Response
Scope and Description
This WG is focused on identifying emerging demand response technologies, developing methods for performance evaluation and cost-benefits studies of demand response, and investigating market schemes that can provide economic incentives for demand response. The goal of the WG is to identify the criteria for evaluating demand response technologies and developing business models for demand response as energy and ancillary service products.
Leadership Team
Chair: Dr. Gregor Verbic, University of Sydney, gregor.verbic@sydney.edu.au
Vice Chair:
Secretaries: Dr. Qinran Hu, Southeast University, qhu@seu.edu.cnUniversity ; Jingyuan Wang, ETAP, jingyuan.wang@etap.com
Past Chairs:
Dr. Haiwang Zhong, Tsinghua University, zhonghw@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Dr. Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Jianming.lian@pnnl.gov
Dr. Ning Lu, North Carolina State University, nlu2@ncsu.edu and Dr. Pengwei Du, ERCOT, pengwei.du@ercot.com
Past Activities
Since its inception, the WG has organized a number of panels at IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meetings and at T&D meetings, which regularly draw over 100 attendees. This includes the following hosted panels:
- “Wholesale and Retail Market Interaction Requirements for Effective Demand-side Participation,” 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
- Panel Chairs: Farrokh Rahimi and Leigh Tesfatsion
- Panelists:
- Ali Ipakchi, OATI, “Emerging Electricity Industry Landscape”
- Jim Price, California ISO, “Possibilities and Limitations of Demand-side Participation in Bulk Power and Wholesale Market Operations”
- Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology, “Demand Response Exchange (DRX) for Day-ahead Scheduling of Power Systems with Variable Renewable Energy”
- Ron Melton, Pacific Northwest National Laboraory, “Transactive Control of Demand-side Assets”
- Koen Kok, TNO, “Intelligent System Support for Transactive Energy Systems”
- Auswin Thomas, Iowa State University, “Integrated Transmission and Distribution Effects of Demand-side Participation”
- C. Thomas, Electric Power Research Institute, “Demand-side Requirements for the Integrated Grid”
- Nanpeng Yu, University of California, Riverside, “A California Utilities Perspective on Demand-side Participation”
- “Market-based Approaches for Demand Response,” 2015 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
- Panel Chairs: Jianming (Jamie) Lian and Wei Zhang
- Panelists:
- Wei Zhang, The Ohio State University, “Market-based Approaches for Demand Response”
- Anuradha Annaswamy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “A Dynamic Market Mechanism for Integration of Renewables and Demand Response”
- Hamed Mohsenian-Rad, University of California, Riverside, “Enhancing Demand Bids in Wholesale Electricity Markets”
- Sean Meyn, University of Florida, “From the Sunshine State to the Solar State: A New Vision for Transactive Control”
- Na Li, Harvard University, “Demand Response Using Linear Supply Function Bidding”
- Duncan Callaway, University of California, Berkeley, “Dynamic Contracts for Demand Response”
- Steve Widergren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “A Transactive Systems Approach to Access Flexibility of End‐Use Resources”
- “Demand Response Programs: Overview, Applications, and Field Experiments,” 2016 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
- Panel Chair: Pengwei Du
- Panelists:
- Ning Lu, North Carolina State University, “Demand Response Applications: Modeling, Control, and Economics”
- Farrokh Rahami, OATI, “Provision of Grid Services from Demand-Side Resources”
- Yonghong Chen, Midcontinent ISO, “Demand Response Resources in MISO and other RTOs”
- Pengwei Du, ERCOT, “Demand Response Tutorial”
- Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Transactive Control for Demand Response: Principle, Demonstration and Analysis”
- “Challenges, Opportunities, and Approaches for Integrating Demand Response in Markets and Distribution Systems,” 2017 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
- Panel Chairs: Jim Price and Haiwang Zhong
- Panelists:
- Jim Price, California ISO, “Introduction: ISO Perspective on Integrating Demand Response”
- Daniel Kirschen, University of Washington, “Demand Response: Balancing the Needs of the Distribution and Transmission Networks”
- Alex Papalexopoulos, ECCO International and Farrokh Rahimi, OATI, “Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Demand Response in Organized Market”
- Goran Andersson, ETH, “Control of Loads for Power System Ancillary Services”
- Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Theoretical Framework for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources into Distribution Systems”
- “Provision of Grid Services from DR Resources,” 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society T&D Conference & Exhibition
- Chaired by Farrokh Rahimi
- Panelists:
- Farrokh Rahimi, OATI, “Provision of Flexible Grid Services from Demand-side Assets”
- Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Internet of Things-aided Control for Heterogeneous End-use Appliances to Participate into Grid Operations as a Virtual Power Plant”
- Ning Lu, North Carolina State University, “Provision of Frequency Response Services from DR Resources”
- Jeremy Laundergan, EnerNex, “Aligning DR Capabilities and Appropriate DR Applications”
- The WG also organized a tutorial on “Demand response: Overview, Application and Field Implementation” at the 2018 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, which over 20 attendees. This tutorial was chaired by Farrokh Rahimi of OATI and had the following instructors:
- Farrokh Rahimi, OATI, “The Changing Utility Landscape”
- Ning Lu, North Carolina State University, “Demand Response Applications: Modeling, Control, and Economics”
- Haiwang Zhong, Tsinghua University, “Demand Response in Energy Internet”
- Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, “Demystifying Transactive Energy System: Glossary, Principle & Application”
- Chaired by Prof. Qinran Hu, the secretary of IEEE PES DR working group, PSE Day Event: Young Professional and IEEE PES, which introduced how IEEE PES helped the career development of young professionals and women engineer was held online from 7 pm to 9 pm on Sunday, May 9th, 2021. The representatives included Chair of IEEE SEM WIE AG, Chaitali Naik; IEEE PES President for 2018 and 2019, Saifur Rahman; Chair of PES WIP Committee, Ruomei Li; IEEE PES VP Membership &Image, Julio Romero Aguero; Chair of PES Young Professional Committee, Simay Akar and Associate Professor of Zheng Zhou University, Yaoqiang Wang.
- From December 22th to 24th, 2021, 2021 IEEE Sustainable Power and Energy Conference was held to focus on energy transition for Carbon Neutrality. The panels related to distributed energy resources and demand response included AEPS MPCE Forum: Flexibilities of New Power Systems and Power Economics and Electricity Market, which were organized by the secretary of IEEE PES DR working group, Prof. Qinran Hu. All representatives included Prof. Qingxin Shi, Prof. Junjie Hu, Prof. Xiaohe Yan, Prof. Meng Song, Prof. Yujian Ye, Prof. Yue Chen, Prof. Zongxiang Lu, Prof. Ying Chen, Prof. Haiwang Zhong, Prof. Mingyu Yan, Prof. Ye Guo, Prof. Yingjun Wu and Shihai Yang from State Grid Jiangsu Electric Power Company Marketing Service Center.
- From 9:00 to 10:30, on November 27th, 2021, the 7tn “Outstanding Electricity” Overseas Scholars Cloud Forum and Graduate Academic Frontier Lecture Series of Southeast University in 2021 was held online, chaired by Prof. Qinran Hu, the secretary of IEEE PES DR working group. Dr. Cui Hantao, an assistant professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University， gave a lecture on Software Engineering for Power System Simulation: Elements of Success and Lessons Learned. In this talk, Dr. Cui discussed the success and lessons learned in software engineering for power system simulation, especially from his experience of developing ANDES.
- From 19:00 to 21:30, on November 27th, 2021, The 7tn “Outstanding Electricity” Overseas Scholars Cloud Forum and graduate academic Frontier lecture series of Southeast University in 2021 was held online, sponsored by IEEE PES DR working group. Dr. Wei Sun, an Associate Professor and the Director of Siemens Digital Grid Lab in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida, gave a lecture on Secure and Resilient Operation for High-Penetration Solar and DER Integration. This talk shared Dr. Wei’s recent work based on novel distributed optimization and control techniques and advanced data-driven and learning-enabled methods.
The WG Chair Haiwang Zhong is translating a book Demand Response in Smart Grid from English into Chinese to increase the impact of demand response in China.
Future Activities
The WG will host the following three panels at both the 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies conference and the 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting:
- “Harnessing the flexibility of behind-the-meter energy resources”
- Panel Chair:Gregor Verbic
- Panelists:
- Archie Chapman, The University of Sydney
- Evan Franklin, University of Tasmania
- Thomas Morstyn, University of Oxford
- Pierluigi Mancarella, The University of Melbourne
- Goran Strbac, Imperial College London
- Kankar Bhattacharya, University of Waterloo
- Ivana Kockar, University of Strathclyde
- Johanna Mathieu, University of Michigan
- Gregor Verbic, The University of Sydney
- “Distributed Demand Response Dilemma: Defect or Engage”
- Panel Chairs: Kenneth Bruninx and Yury Dvorkin
- Panelists:
- Johanna L. Mathieu, University of Michigan
- Eilyan Bitar, Cornell University
- Benjamin F. Hobbs, John Hopkins University
- Kameshwar Poolla, University of California, Berkeley
- Yury Dvorkin, New York University
- Kenneth Bruninx, KU Leuven
- “Cost-Effective Provision of Grid Services from Demand-side Assets”
- Panel Chairs: Farrokh Rahimi and Ning Lu
- Panelists:
- Farrokh Albuyeh, OATI
- Masahiro Tanaka, Tokyo Electric Power Company
- Ed Hedges, Kansas City Power & Light
- Jim Price, California ISO
The WG will also host the following tutorials:
- “Demand response: Overview, Application and Field Implementation,” 2019 IEEE Innovative Smart Grid Technologies conference
- Tutorial Chair: Farrokh Rahimi
- Instructors:
- Farrokh Rahami, OATI
- Ning Lu, North Carolina State University
- Haiwang Zhong, Tsinghua University
- Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- “Transactive Energy Systems: Overview, Theory, Tool, Application, and Trend,” 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
- Tutorial Chairs: Jianming (Jamie) Lian and Koen Kok
- Instructors:
- Christopher Irwin, Department of Energy
- Jianming (Jamie) Lian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Steve Widergren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Farrokh Rahimi, OATI
- Paul Heitmann, IEEE
- Leigh Tesfatsion, Iowa State University
- Srinivas Katipamula, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Koen Kok, TNO
- Haiwang Zhong, Tsinghua University
The WG is also working on developing a white paper and/or book that summarizes ongoing research and applications of different demand response technologies, possibly in coordination with CIGRE. The WG is also working on organizing a special issue of a PES Transactions journals on demand response with multiple energy carriers.
The WG will continue to sponsor panel sessions in the IEEE sponsored conferences.
The WG will organize regular quarterly on-line meeting to let the WG members to get more engaged in the WG activities.
The WG will organize some webinars focusing on Demand Response in 2022.
The WG will finish annual report starting from 2022.
The WG will enroll more WG members all around the world.
Get Involved
You can join the WG and get involved by contacting any member of the WG leadership team via email.