Battery knowledge · Charging infrastructure
Demand response
Changing electricity consumption in answer to a price signal or a grid operator’s request, rather than adding generation. Pausing a fleet’s charging during an evening peak, or letting a home battery carry the house load for an hour, are typical examples; aggregated, such flexible loads can be paid as grid services.
- Also called
- DR, demand-side response, demand-side flexibility
Example
Charging infrastructure: an example situation
A 100 kW model request does not establish real voltage, current, connector or negotiation compatibility.
Read Demand response alongside Energy arbitrage in this context. Charging a battery when electricity is cheap and discharging when it is expensive, the simplest revenue of grid storage. Peak shaving is the same idea applied to a site’s demand charges.
Use in Lemonergy
Separate compatibility from requested average power.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
U.S. Department of Energy, Alternative Fuels Data Center
Topic background · U.S. charging equipment levels, charging infrastructure and connector context. Regional terminology varies.