As of December, California’s three biggest utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric, have agreed to upgrade their support to OpenADR 2.0, which is an open standard for turning buildings, motors, microgrids, and other forms of energy demand into grid assets. The three utilities previously used OpenADR 1.0, whose limitations had prevented much of the industry from adopting it as they waited for 2.0. OpenADR was developed in a project sponsored by the Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Energy Commission. The goal of the project was to make a simple, open protocol to communicate utility messages to the consumers.
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