Configure Demand Response and Holiday Behavior

Configuring Demand Response is available both in Manage Classic UI and New UI.

For configuring it in the New UI, please see Configure Demand Response and Holiday Behavior v4.6. If you use the Classic UI, continue with this article.

Table of contents:

• Overview
• Points to remember:
• Configuring DR and Holiday Behavior

Overview

Demand Response (DR) and Holiday override contribute to energy load reduction and savings during peak demand time and public holidays. This section helps you configure a Demand Response (DR) and Holiday override event to meet energy load reduction during peak hours.

End-users   set up by the utility as a DR participating company will receive a notification from the utility of the DR event, and their Manage Administrator will schedule the event in Manage.  If that company participates  in Open Automated Demand Response, then Manage must be registered on the utilities Open ADR Server.  Once done, the Open ADR server will initiate the DR event directly with Manage, and there is no need for the manual process above.  An internet connection between Manage and the Open ADR server will be necessary to support this feature. 

Caution:

Please note the values entered in the Override 'Max. Light level when on (0-100%)' column must be lower (<) than the Period 'Max. Light level when on (0-100%) value for the override to take effect.  

Points to remember:

When DR is in effect, the Maximum light levels are adjusted to the new DR override specified maximum.

• If a light is on and   above the DR override maximum level, it will immediately transition to the new  DR override maximum level.
• If a light is on and is below the DR maximum level, it will not change its level.
• If a light is off, it will remain off and turn on to the level specified in its profile, or to the DR maximum level, whichever is less, for the duration of the DR override.
  • Auto On lights will turn on based on the light profile
  • Manual On lights will turn on if the ERC button is pressed

Configuring DR and Holiday Behavior

To configure DR and holiday behavior,

Step 1: Select a profile name from the left panel in the Profile Template tree and click Edit. 

Step 2: In the Edit Profile screen, browse to the Override Profiles section.

• DR —  Override 1, Override 2, Override 3, and Override 4 represent DR overrides.
• Holiday Behavior — Override 5, Override 6, Override 7, and Override 8 represent Holiday behavior override events.

Step 3: Enter light level values for each DR override in the   Override Profiles section.

Caution: The values in the columns Override 'Max. Light level when on (0-100%)' must be lower (<) than the Period 'Max. Light level when on (0-100%) value for the override to take effect.

Step 4: Scroll to the Advanced section.

• In the Demand Response Behavior box, for each DR Level, select an override profile from the drop-down box.

• Select an override from the Holiday Override Profile drop-down box in the General Behavior window to schedule Holiday Overrides.

Step 5: Scroll to the top right corner of the page, click Update to save the override profiles for DR and Holiday behavior. It will take 10 to 15 minutes for these configurations to be pushed to the sensors.

The screen below details all the above steps.

Refer to the article Push Profile Update to a Sensor to verify that the profile has been pushed to a sensor.

To schedule a DR, refer to Scheduling Demand Response and Holiday Overrides.