The Global Market for Demand Response Enabling Technologies is Projected to Reach $475 Million by 2020
Ever Changing Electricity Demand Dynamics Drives the
Market for Demand Response Technologies, According to a New Report by Global Industry Analysts, Inc.
GIA launches
comprehensive analysis of industry segments, trends, growth drivers, market
share, size and demand forecasts on the global Demand Response (DR) market. The
global market for Demand Response Enabling Technologies is projected to reach $475
million by 2020, driven by surging demand from utilities for an economic
and eco-friendly resource for efficiently managing energy demand disruptions.
Demand Response
(DR), also termed as demand-side response or load response, comprises a broad
range of manual and automated initiatives offered to the consumer to modify
electricity usage in reaction to electricity demand-supply imbalances or
exceptionally high power-prices. Utilities leverage the power conserved through
demand curtailment or displacement to meet a surge in electricity demand from a
particular part of the grid. DR has evolved dynamically over the years from
preventing blackouts and brownouts, and maintaining system reliability for
utilities and grid operators to include price mitigation and provision of economic,
emergency, peak hour management, and ancillary services. Various benefits
offered by DR that is driving its steady adoption over the years, particularly
in the United States, include diverting customer load reduction to resolve
network congestion or stress in electrical grid; integrating intermittent
supply from renewable energy and distributed generation resources; and enabling
automation and integration of DR with the fast evolving smart grid.
Future growth
in the market will be driven by surging demand for Automated Demand Response (Auto-DR)
technologies; ongoing evolution and adoption of the smart
grid phenomenon that is wielding huge impact on DR deployments; the growing
prominence of smart electricity meter as the cornerstone of the ‘Connected
Home’ or ‘Smart Home’; and the upcoming ‘Smart City’ phenomenon that is
expected to generate large-scale demand for DR resources. Favourable government
initiatives and the rapid penetration of Automated Metering Infrastructure
(AMI) in utilities across the world; and the increasing role of ‘Cloud’
services in smart grid operations are poised to benefit market expansion in the
near term. Rising demand from utilities for the economical, efficient, and
eco-friendly DR resource for surviving energy demand disruptions is also
driving healthy growth in global deployments of DR enabling technologies. The
increased demand from utilities is attributed to mounting pressures on utility
operators to step up and modernize their grid operations and improve
distribution efficiency to suffice the growing demand from various end-use
sectors including residential, commercial and industrial.
As stated by
the new market research report on Demand
Response (DR), the United States represents the largest market worldwide. Key
factors driving market dominance of the country include stimulus funding and
federal governmental policy guidance, regulations at State levels, changing
economic dynamics of the nation’s utility industry at large, increasing role of
DR in meeting the US government’s clean energy and climate goals, growing number
of natural disasters that is questioning the resilience and reliability of the
existing grid, and DR technology innovations, among others. Asia-Pacific
represents the fastest growing market with a CAGR of 40% over the analysis
period.
Key players covered
in the report include Accenture plc, Aclara Technologies LLC, Comverge Inc.,
Computer Sciences Corp., CPower Corp., Eaton Corporation, Cooper Power Systems,
LLC, EnerNOC, Inc., Honeywell International, Inc., Johnson Controls, Inc., Landis+Gyr,
NRG Energy, Inc., Opower, Schneider Electric SA, Siemens AG, Silver Spring
Networks, Tantalus Systems Inc., and Trilliant Holdings, Inc., among others.
The research
report titled “Demand Response
(DR): A Global Strategic Business Report” announced by Global Industry
Analysts Inc., provides a comprehensive review of market trends, issues,
drivers, mergers, acquisitions and other strategic industry activities of
global companies. The report provides market estimates and projections for
major geographic regions including the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and Rest of
World. Major sectors analyzed for the global market include Residential, and
Industrial & Commercial.
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