The market for Demand Response Management System (DRMS) is influenced by various factors which lead to its growth and development collectively. One key factor here is increasing focus on energy conservation measures or sustainability goals. This involves governments across the globe taking steps towards optimizing their energy requirements while lowering peak demands as well as minimizing any environmental concerns linked to power generation activities. Consequently, end users need this system because it enables them manage fluctuations in their demand thus making their power grid usage more efficient.
Technological advancements in smart grid technologies and communication systems significantly impact the market dynamics of DRMS. Continuous innovation in sensors, data analytics, and control systems allows for more accurate monitoring of energy usage patterns and enables real-time response to demand fluctuations. Therefore, producers and service providers are always actively engaged in R&D processes that could produce advanced DRMS solutions aligning with changing requirements among utilities as well as industries or commercial entities practicing effective demand-side management.
Additionally, regulation frameworks as well as policy initiatives have great significance on how DRMS operates in the market. Governments should thus introduce various programs and incentives meant to facilitate adoption of demand response measures. These policies aim to create a more resilient and reliable energy grid, reduce the need for additional infrastructure investments, and promote a sustainable energy future. Moreover, these supportive regulations have led to higher uptake of the system in other sectors within the DRMS market.
The ongoing integration of renewable energy sources is also driving forces behind dynamics seen in DRMS markets. For instance, wind farms provide highly intermittent power supplies which need an action plan when given at different times during day or week by national or regional grids. Although there are some other issues related to renewable power integration but current question can be considered from end-users’ side through demand response management systems (DRMS). Thus, end users can change their consumption pattern depending on availability of electro-energy sources derived from renewables thereby ensuring constancy & reliability of electric grid operation.
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The demand response management system market in the global market is expected to grow at a high CAGR of 6.86% from 2024-2032, and is expected to reach a value of USD 97.49 billion during the end of the forecasted. The global market was valued at a sum of USD 53.66 billion in 2024.
Demand Response Management System (DRMS) as a prominent aspect of the market can be understood as one of the crucial peak load management tools with considerable benefits in reducing the imbalance between energy supply and demand. Demand Response (DR) and Energy Efficiency (EE) collectively in the global market help in Demand-Side Management (DSM) of energy that encourages consumers to modify their levels and patterns of electricity consumption, along with other advantages like improved grid reliability. DR and EE programs prevailing at the right time can defer the need to build highly cost-intensive power plants for electricity generation that are also detrimental to the environment.
In March 2024, a pioneer in AI-enabled electricity demand management solutions, DemandQ, introduced the Real-time Demand (RTD) Hub. Suppliers, demand response aggregators, ISOs and utilities may now autonomously perform demand response and economic dispatch programs on a large scale but also maintain preset comfort levels.
Catalyst Power Holdings LLC ("Catalyst Power") has introduced demand response programs for New York companies since January 2024 that are integrated suppliers of cleaner energy solutions in the commercial and industrial sectors.
In February 2023, Tata Power launched an AI-based smart energy management system with AutoGrid in order to encourage behavioral demand response among residential as well as commercial and industrial users in Mumbai. This program aims to address high energy demands while aiding India’s shift to renewable energy and Net Zero Goals. There is also a target of including fifty-five thousand home customers along with six thousand major commercial/industrial clients.
CPower acquired the U.S. demand response division of Centrica in July 2022. Centrica is involved in integrated energy services business specializing in customer load management activities for commercial and industrial customers who are located within ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM and ERCOT territories, respectively. By purchasing this entity CPower seeks to leverage customer-powered distributed energy resources so it becomes America's topmost provider for grid flexibility and reliability.
Across the nation, during June 2022, CPower initiated four programs that were purposely meant to cater for any increase or decrease in power supply during summer. CPower already manages over 5.3 GW of distributed resource capacity across America. It connects assets from nearly 2k customers located at over twelve k places, hence forming virtual power plants that meet the real-time supply requirement needs of the grid itself.
In May 2022, Virtual Peaker, together with FortisBC, made public its inaugural pilot program on demand response, which had been implemented in Canada before then. For example, using Virtual Peaker’s distributed energy resource management system (DERMS), utilities such as FortisBC can adequately handle their distributed energy resources, which include solar on rooftops, residential battery storage systems and electric vehicles. Utilities can tailor and expand their operations by implementing demand response software to accommodate the growing prevalence of renewable energy sources.
These included TCS Clever Energy, Intelligent Power Plant and TCS Envirozone, which were unveiled by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) in February 2022 for its sustainability offering set, enabling it to know how much of the power is wasted. Demand response, among others, is one of the key features provided by TCS Clever Energy.
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