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Berkeley Lab to Operate 'Pier' Demand Response Research Center for Califonia Energy Commission; New Center Will Evaluate, Develop Technologies and Strategies to Reduce Electricity Use, Power Price Increases, Threats to Grid.
AScribe Business & Economics News Service, June, 2004
Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
BERKELEY, Calif., June 30 (AScribe Newswire) -- The California Energy Commission is providing $8 million in funding over three years for a new Demand Response Research Center (DRRC) that will be managed by the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). It is sponsored by the Commission's Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) program.
Demand response facilitates the quick, automatic reduction of energy use in buildings, industrial facilities, and homes in response to a rising price in the cost of power or an emergency on the electric grid. The director of the new center is Mary Ann Piette, a scientist in Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division....
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