October 20, 2023
Residential air conditioning direct load control (DLC) is a common demand response strategy for maintaining grid reliability. During DLC events, consumers cede control of their thermostat to the utility, but participants can often override settings. Existing literature has not quantified the impact of overrides on the reliability contributions of DLC programs. This study combine empirical override behavior from a DLC program with household- and power-system-level models to quantify the impact of overrides on the system reliability contributions of alternative DLC program designs in California.
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