Brattle Report on Demand Stack Potential Featured in Utility Dive
In a report prepared for Uplight, Brattle experts examined the demand stack, a promising utility framework that can increase demand-side resources while mitigating the impacts of load growth, variable renewables, and distributed electrification.
The report, “The Demand Stack: An Assessment of the Benefits,” examines how utilities can utilize demand-side solutions to accommodate new loads, alleviate grid constraints, and mitigate ratepayer costs. The Brattle team evaluated six strategies that were said to significantly increase demand-side capability over a four-year period.
“Collectively, Brattle found those strategies boosted the representative SPP utility’s demand-side capability by 66 MW,” writes Utility Dive. “Two other strategies — improved forecasting and staggered asset dispatch — added another 23 MW. The combined benefit is about 5% of total system load, up from 3% in a “status quo” scenario.”
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