Challenges, Opportunities, and Approaches for Integrating Demand Response in Markets

California has adopted numerous policies to achieve a transition to reliance on sustainable, renewable energy sources. Ongoing changes in the supply resources and demand characteristics that are supported by the grid present both challenges and opportunities for meeting the challenges. Demand response can have great value in responding to these changes. However, certain barriers may have inhibited these resources from achieving their potential. This paper outlines steps that the California ISO is using to facilitate the implementation of demand response and storage, resources and realization of the value that these resources can provide.