Industry experts convened in Boston on 27-29 September 2011 to discuss recent developments and best practices in the US energy sector. On 28 September, NERA Vice President Jonathan Falk presented "The Price is Right: Compensating Price-Based Demand Response." Federal regulators in the US have decided that demand response (DR) will be compensated like generation resources in the de-regulated energy markets. This decision follows a global trend in DR compensation, but the road to a ruling was long and plagued with conflict. In his presentation, Mr. Falk, who assisted the late Dr. Alfred Kahn with delivering his testimony on this issue before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, provided a regulatory history on the background and economics of the rule.

To learn more, please visit the EnergySMART 2011 website.