Demand Response

Demand Response

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Customers enrolled in demand response programs may be called upon to shift electricity consumption away from times of peak usage when electricity costs more to produce. These customers benefit through a lower rate. Demand response can also be a useful tool to avoid emergency situations where customer usage is expected to exceed available generation supply.

Third party demand response aggregation is a topic that the Commission has addressed through several Orders since 2016, and it was the topic of a series of stakeholder meetings in 2019. The Commission has reopened U-20348 in October 2020 for the purpose of accepting comments and reviewing the current demand response aggregation ban on the remaining MPSC-jurisdictional utility customers.

Actions to Date

• Demand Response Potential Study
• Demand Response Framework (U-18369)
• Integrated Resource Plans (Consumers Energy Integrated Resource Plan U-20165)
• Rate Cases/Demand Response Reconciliation Cases (Consumers Energy Reconciliation U-20164)
• Demand Response Wholesale Aggregation Workgroup (U-20348)
• Demand Response Public Act 342 Implementation Workgroup 
• Statewide Energy Assessment Review (U-20464 – Recommendation E-1)

Next Steps

• Continue to monitor demand response wholesale aggregation 
  • Including U-20348 and any Commission action in that docket

Stakeholder Sessions

May 19, 2020 (TELECONFERENCE ONLY)

Agenda

MI Power Grid Demand Response Stakeholder Sessions

April 28, 2020 (TELECONFERENCE ONLY)

Agenda | Presentations | Recording

March 17, 2020 (TELECONFERENCE ONLY)

Agenda | Presentations | Recording

February 19, 2020

Agenda | Presentations | Recording 

January 16, 2020

Agenda | Presentations | Recording

Staff Lead

Roger Doherty

Related Documents

Demand Response Aggregation (U-20348)

• Staff comments in response to 10-29-20 Order

MI Power Grid - Demand Response (U-20628)

• Order
• Staff Report
• 2-19 Panel Solutions
• Interruptible Tariff Comparison
  • Supporting Data
• Interruptible Tariff Compilation

Related MPSC Case(s)

• U-20628 (Demand Response Tariffs)
• U-20471 (DTE Integrated Resource Plan)
• U-20350 (UPPCO Integrated Resource Plan)
• U-20563 (CE Demand Response Reconciliation)
• U-20521 (DTE Demand Response Reconciliation)

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