Demand response & Personal Energy Management

Landis+Gyr personal energy management solutions enable utilities to provide accurate and informative consumption and billing data online and via in-home displays. Greater energy consumption awareness and variable tariff pricing creates incentives for consumers to reduce peak load demand, and provides utilities with the confidence to reduce excess capacity margins via demand response programs. The Landis+Gyr advanced metering solution can take this further with the addition of load control that allows utilities to actively shed load when necessary. Trials have indicated that Landis+Gyr demand response technology can reduce peak loads by up to 30%.

Variable tariff pricing can be implemented through fixed time-of-use tariff rates that alleviate predictable peak demands, or through variable pricing systems that also allow utilities to respond to irregular and unpredictable demand patterns.

Traditional metering solutions with built-in time-of-use tariff rates provide incentives for efficient consumption behavior through post-event customer billing, and smooth daily demand patterns to minimize the impact of predictable peak demand.

Variable pricing systems are a more sophisticated response to peak demand capacity constraints. They allow real-time pricing adjustments to be communicated to consumers through in-home displays and the Internet. Real-time pricing enables utilities to respond to unpredictable or irregular peak demand, as well as the more predictable peak demand patterns. Real-time pricing enables shorter control response cycles, allowing utilities to manage demand more accurately.