Upper North Island Demand Side Initiatives

Overview

What we're doing

We have re-scoped the UNI Demand Side Initiatives (UNI DSI) Project to investigate whether reliable demand response can be delivered at economic cost. This re-scoped project builds on what we learnt during the tender process in 2011.
The re-scoped project will include:

Testing a demand response management system for effective dispatch of demand response.
Assessing whether the management system reduces barriers to entry for different types of demand response.
Discovering the economic price points for different types of demand response
Determining whether a sustainable demand response programme can be established.

Why we're doing it

Demand side initiatives have value as a contingency measure (i.e. providing capacity headroom) during the construction and commissioning of transmission assets, or as a non-transmission investment solution (e.g. investment in dynamic reactive support).

For more information visit the project consultation page.