Forskning

Energy Efficiency - Demand Response Driven Energy Advancements (DREAMS)

2022-2025

The DREAMS (‘Energy Efficiency – Demand Response Driven Energy Advancements’) project is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Royal Norwegian Embassy, New Delhi). DREAMS is a 3-year project from 2022 to 2025 to implement Automated Demand Response (ADR) pilots in India.

The project consortium comprises of 6 partners including:

Smart Innovation Norway (SIN) – Project Coordinator
Research and Innovation Circle of Hyderabad (RICH) – Pilot Manager
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)

and 3 Distribution Companies – DISCOMs

BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL), Delhi, India
BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL), Delhi, India
Noida Power Company Limited (NPCL), Noida, India

Project Goal

The project goal is to empower consumers, promote energy efficiency and decarbonisation by the wide-scale deployment of data-driven demand response (DR) technology developed using a societal co-creation approach. The project will create pathways to institutionalise DR initiatives across India, thus contributing to India’s international climate goals and clean energy access.

Project Impact

Higher integration of renewables
Just transition of society towards decarbonisation and alleviation of energy poverty.

Primary objectives of the project

Unlock, demonstrate and promote demand response and real-time consumer insights to increase the renewable hosting capacity of the grid, bring energy efficiency in consumer behaviour and offer support to grid operators through flexibility services.
Leverage digitisation and IoT to empower and transform consumers to prosumers and create a consumer-driven participative energy ecosystem.
Design and implement consumer engagement mechanism, customized across different demographic consumers to reduce consumer energy costs and improve on energy poverty, energy justice, and enhanced clean energy access.
Provide Grid Operator with greener and more cost-effective alternatives for demand fulfilment beyond supply-side expansion.
Provide the right template for sustainability, scalability, and replicability of demand response and real-time consumer insights across India including contributing to regulatory and policy advancement in this field.