The Demand Management Program seeks to increase the efficiency of energy use in Maine by deploying measures and strategies that mitigate the impacts of demand on electricity utility transmission and distributions systems and balance the increased penetration of intermittent renewables on the grid. In Triennial Plan VI, this program will start with three discrete initiatives: • Demand Response Initiative: A traditional demand response program where participants are compensated for reducing their electricity usage when called upon to do so. This typically occurs during periods of peak demand that drive system costs. • Distributed Energy Resource (DER) Initiative1 : An initiative focused on using both passive and active load-shifting strategies across fleets of devices. These devices and deployment strategies are programmable and, in some cases, networked, operating in response to internal or remote dispatch signals. The initiative incentivizes participants to modify the timing of their electricity consumption from the grid -- shifting away from periods of peak demand to periods of lower demand -- which reduces overall system costs for all ratepayers. • Large Battery Initiative: An initiative involving performance-based incentives for the installation and dispatch of batteries at demand-metered customers during summer peak demand conditions.
