Channel 7 ABC news features a Demand Response Segment. View here (quicktime)
Professor Paul Wright is one of five researchers featured in the Green Future article in the Fall 2007 issue of Forefront Magazine an excerpt of the article is here.
DR project mentioned in the President's Council of Advisors on Science and technology November 2006 report Energy Inperative. Download the pdf report here.
San Francisco Chronicle's July 20th article "Selling Power by the Hour" an review of P,G and E's ongoing test of "smartmeters" that changes the way residentual usage is tracked and billed. Read the article here. Or check out our NEWS page here for other links of interest.
DR
team wins award at the 3rd TinyOS Technology Exchange Awards with
over thirty posters and demos entered, UC Berkeley
took home 2 out of four of the awards. Please visit the TinyOS
site for more information
The Societal Impact of Demand Response:
The ultimate goal of this CEC-funded project is to increase energy efficiency in California. Basic research at Berkeley in wireless-based technologies will eventually be used by industry to create products that will monitor electricity use and lower it when prices or demand are high – hence the project is entitled “Demand Response.” This automatic load reduction will avoid rolling blackouts in California’s summer heat and is estimated to be able to save as much as $10 billion in California's energy costs (see slides). Industry will eventually equip the eleven million homes in California with smart, indoor thermostats that will be based on the results of our fundamental research. Future devices will contain small cheap radios (powered by energy scavenging) to receive emergency signals and up-to-date price information from the utility companies to drive more efficient electricity use. This multi-disciplinary research is a ‘flagship’ project in CITRIS, involving 3 COE departments and Berkeley’s Department of Architecture.
Please view our 4 minute concept animation here (.swf file 3 mb flash player required).Windows flash projector file here, Mac OSX projector here.
