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Demand Response
An energy-management approach that optimizes when loads run on the consumer side, based on the tariff, system conditions, or incentives.
Demand-Side ManagementDSM
Demand Response (DR) is the practice by which a consumer (industrial facility, commercial building, residential aggregator) shifts electricity demand over time — to lower tariff cost (under time-of-use or real-time pricing), to avoid peak-demand charges, or to earn ancillary-service revenue from the system operator. The classical survey is Albadi and El-Saadany (2008); Palensky and Dietrich (2011) detail industrial application. Technically, DR is an optimization problem — when flexible loads (shiftable, curtailable, conditional) should run is decided with MIP, MPC, RL, etc. Regulators in Turkey (EPDK) and elsewhere offer DR programs in ancillary markets; industrial consumers can earn capacity revenue while saving on the bill. DR investment is typically evaluated jointly with renewable (solar) and storage (battery) investments.
Örnek
A textile mill uses demand-response software to optimize the timing of 12 compressors, 8 heaters and 3 chillers, cutting the monthly electricity bill from 1.2M TRY to 950K TRY (-21%).