EETD Communications

Two companies nominated by the Demand Response Research Center’s Rish Ghatikar received a Buildy Award at the recent Connectivity Week meeting in San Jose. Ghatikar’s nomination of Powerit Solutions was based in the company’s successful integration of the  OpenADR communication infrastructure and enabling automated demand response (Auto-DR) at Amy’s Kitchen, a specialty food manufacturer.

OpenADR was developed  by the Demand Response Research Center, with funding from the California Energy Commission’s Public Interest Energy Research Program, to help ease the path toward automated demand response for facilities and companies.  The DRRC is based at the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

Powerit Solutions developed an OpenADR-compliant web services client to connect and respond to price and reliability signals initiated by Pacific Gas & Electric’s Auto-DR program. When a demand response event is called by PG&E for the next day, Powerit Solution’s Web service client, polling the PG&E Demand Response Automation Server, receives DR event information and triggers pre-programmed operating modes to automatically reduce peak load for Amy’s Kitchen.

http://www.connectivityweek.com/2009/#session_903

http://www.poweritsolutions.com/

For more information on OpenADR, see:

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/press-releases/2009/04/27/openadr-specification/

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