Demand response failed California 20 years ago; the state's recent outages may have redeemed it

Utility Dive: California's recent blackouts revealed serious shortcomings in the state's energy transition planning, but may also have prompted a reconsideration of a distribution system resource that previously had a bad reputation.

Demand response (DR) failed California in its 2000-2001 energy crisis and left regulators inclined to call on it only in the most dire energy shortages. But the recent heatwave-induced rolling blackouts had billion-dollar-plus costs and the performance of a new kind of DR got policymakers' attention.

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