Generally, the diesel generation parks are not providing power to the grid but offering it to other businesses or organisations, allowing them to fall into the category of "demand-side response" at peak moments.
There are two general categories of demand response (DR): price-based and incentive-based DR programs.
Three main categories of demand side intervention can be described: Financial incentives/direct subsidies (by far most published on this); enhancing patient transfer, and; community involvement.
The largest category of on-demand spending is online marketplaces (e.g. Ebay, Etsy), with 16.3 million consumers each month spending almost $36 billion annually.
"By really focusing on what the talent wants, we're creating a new category of on-demand staffing for highly technical and strategically critical roles," Medina tells us.
New York-based Glamsquad, a startup in the "Uber for X" category of on-demand businesses, has just raised another $15 million for its mobile beauty service that brings hair stylists, makeup artists or nail techs to wherever you are – home, office or hotel – instead of requiring a trip to the salon.
Based on these categories of energy demand and supply, an overall sustainability assessment is calculated with the following fundamental indicators: (1) environmental indicators: ecological footprint (as sustainable process index, SPI), life cycle CO2 emissions and; (2) socio-economic indicatorsa: regional economic turnover, revenue, regional imports as well as jobs created.
From the program's experience in numerous PEPFAR countries, the risks can be grouped into 3 categories of supply, demand, and cost (Table).
Bank loans, however, continued to contract sharply in all categories, reflecting lack of demand, deterioration in potential borrowers' credit quality, uncertainty about the economic outlook, and banks' concerns about their own capital positions.
We make several key assumptions about the factors affecting each category of the household demand for electricity, including correlation with price and correlation with the number of people at home and awake.
