Traditional demand response relies on a whole range of old-fashioned methods, from phone calls to plant managers who crank up generators and turn down factory lines to mitigate peaks, to emails or web portals that inform customers that a peak day is coming and they’d better turn down power.
winDR is two-way digital communications and control technologies which form the heart of the new breed of demand response, which can act faster and more reliably – and also open up participation to a whole new range of end users.