SDG&E’s Demand Response Emerging Technologies (DRET) program focuses on the challenging area of demand-reducing technologies and strategies with a focus on approaches best for the San Diego region. SDG&E’s DRET program also seeks to identify technologies that mirror the changes throughout its core Demand Response Program portfolio such as Fast DR or Ancillary DR, Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM) technologies, technologies that aid full market integration, permanent load shifting technologies, and technologies that enhance the ratepayer value to the Technology Incentive (TI) Program.
- Behind-the-Meter Battery Market Study
- Battery Powered Load Shedding System – Automated Demand Response Evaluation
- Commercial Behind the Meter Battery Energy Storage System M&V Study
- Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) Smart Thermostat Collaborative
- Fast Demand Response Technologies and Demonstration at SDG&E Energy Innovation Center using OpenADR
- Flywheel Energy Storage Study
- Phase Change Material for Low Temperature Refrigeration Applications for Integrated Demand Side Management (IDSM)
- Whole Home Demand Response
- Wireless Lighting Controls – Automated Demand Response
- Vehicle to Grid Integration Platform (VGIP)