About Respond

Respond 2010 is the world’s leading global best practice, experience and vision study concerning Smart Metering-based Demand Response/Demand-Side Management and related In-Home Services (including Smart Home, Dynamic Pricing and Energy Efficiency). Released June 2010 and conducted in partnership between VaasaETT and EEE Ltd. In collaboration with 35 writers from 24 leading international contributing organizations, many leading energy companies, the Global Demand Response Round-Table and the analysis of some 150 pilot studies and implementations covering three continents. Respond 2010 is part of of VaasaETT’s long-term EcoHome2020 project.

This multi-client project, that took 18 months to research, clarifies the status of smart metering based demand response in its broadest sense. The project looks at shifting energy consumption as well as how energy usage behaviour can be controlled, modified and incentivised through advanced services that include feedback, education, smart home automation, advanced pricing, and marketing (or some combination of these).

Respond 2010 Geographical Focus

What’s more the project identifies how to commercialise and market such services, how to make them attractive to customers, how to turn such services into new revenue streams for energy companies.

The project also looks at the market environments surrounding these developments, including the market and regulatory status of smart metering and demand response in markets covering USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Finally the project highlights the very latest and coolest customer focused smart home solutions available in the market, as well as aggregating state of the art visions for the future – visions provided through extensive discussions with leading experts from around the world.

Respond Contents

Respond 2010 is a compilation of 40 reports written by VaasaETT and collaborating writers from around the world (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Europe). All the reports are located in the VaasaETT Knowledge Centre, from where they can be easily downloaded. Updates to reports will be notified and available to all subscribers. Respond 201 is also comprised of all the presentations given at the Exchange 2010 event, as well as other presentations given at various events by VaasaETT. Respond 2010 subscribers also have access to all other reports posted in the Knowledge Centre, including all Demand Response reports (otherwise only available to members of the Global Demand Response Round-Table.