ABSTRACT
Manufacturers of metering products have introduced new metering and data collection products that allow any electrical contractor or building owner to provide Web-based energy information to customers and tenants cost-effectively. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is recruiting energy and facility managers of large facilities to participate in the 2004 Automated Demand Response research project. Demand response has been identified as an important element of the State of California's Energy Action Plan, which was developed by the California Energy Commission, California Public Utilities Commission, and Consumer Power and Conservation Financing Authority. XML Web Services, the same powerful integration framework that has been embraced by software providers and IT departments everywhere, is also perfectly suited to transform facility sub-systems into valuable sources of new business information. The convergence of IT and building systems technology has produced secure, cost-competitive products that are more effective for demand response than non-networked control.
