Wouldn’t it be nice if you were paid for not switching on the AC during peak hours, or even keeping the cooling not too low? A good tool in grid management — balancing supply and demand for electricity — is ‘demand response’, or adjusting demand to supply, rather than the other way around. If EESL’s plan fructifies, it can shave off a slice of the demand during peak hours by incentivising customers to keep their air-conditioners switched off. During peak hours, cutting demand may be more cost effective than buying more power to satisfy demand. Fans and chillersEESL plans to aggregate demand for 10 million energy-efficient ceiling fans.

Source: The Hindu August 14, 2023 12:43 UTC