What are the benefits of OpenADR?
OpenADR provides a number of benefits all key stakeholders involved in Smart Grid efforts. • Consumers, such as facilities and aggregators, can reduce costs, time, and risk in the selection and deployment of OpenADR products and systems through a well-designed and managed education, research, development, deployment, and conformance process. • Service providers, such as electric utilities and ISOs, can achieve faster access to the market, reliable DR, and lower development and integration costs through the advancement of standards development, demonstration, and conformance framework for certification and testing. • Systems integrators and control vendors, can speed time to market and lower development and integration costs through the use of an open industry interoperable standard, automation of DR communications, and a well-defined process for conformance framework and technical support. The interoperable products and systems enable more flexible system configurations. • Standards de
