A New Definition and Research Agenda for Demand Response in the Distributed Energy Resource Era

Johanna L. Mathieu; Gregor Verbič; Thomas Morstyn; Mads R. Almassalkhi; Kyri Baker; Julio Braslavsky; Kenneth Bruninx; Yury Dvorkin; Gregory S. Ledva; Nariman Mahdavi; Hrvoje Pandžić; Alessandra Parisio; Vedran S. Perić

doi:10.1109/TEMPR.2025.3554734

A New Definition and Research Agenda for Demand Response in the Distributed Energy Resource Era

Johanna L. Mathieu^*, Gregor Verbič, Thomas Morstyn, Mads R. Almassalkhi, Kyri Baker, Julio Braslavsky, Kenneth Bruninx, Yury Dvorkin, Gregory S. Ledva, Nariman Mahdavi, Hrvoje Pandžić, Alessandra Parisio, Vedran S. Perić

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Demand response is a concept that has been around since the very first electric power systems. However, we have seen an explosion of research on demand response and demand-side technologies in the past 30 years, coinciding with the shift towards liberalized/deregulated electricity markets and efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Now we are also seeing a shift towards more distributed/decentralized electric systems; we have entered the era of “distributed energy resources”, which require new grid management, operational, and control strategies. Given this paradigm shift, we argue that the concept of demand response needs to be revisited, and more carefully/consistently defined to enable us to better utilize this massive resource for economic, technical, environmental, and societal aims.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	324-339
Number of pages	16
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMPR.2025.3554734
Publication status	Published - 2025

Keywords

Demand response
demand-side flexibility
distributed energy resources
load aggregation
load control

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Mathieu, J. L., Verbič, G., Morstyn, T., Almassalkhi, M. R., Baker, K., Braslavsky, J., Bruninx, K., Dvorkin, Y., Ledva, G. S., Mahdavi, N., Pandžić, H., Parisio, A., & Perić, V. S. (2025). A New Definition and Research Agenda for Demand Response in the Distributed Energy Resource Era. IEEE Transactions on Energy Markets, Policy and Regulation, 3(3), 324-339. https://doi.org/10.1109/TEMPR.2025.3554734

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