Heat Pump Review is a podcast about all things heat pumps. Our goal is to discuss heat pumps in a way that is accessible to people who are curious about the technology and how it can be best developed and deployed as the world transitions from inefficiently burning fossil fuels to efficiently heating and cooling our homes, our businesses, heating our water, cooling our foods and even greening our industrial processes with an ever-improving energy grid. To learn more, read our written articles, and to subscribe to our email newsletter, visit https://heatpump.review/
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Heat Pump Review is a podcast about all things heat pumps. Our goal is to discuss heat pumps in a way that is accessible to people who are curious about the technology and how it can be best developed and deployed as the world transitions from inefficiently burning fossil fuels to efficiently heating and cooling our homes, our businesses, heating our water, cooling our foods and even greening our industrial processes with an ever-improving energy grid. To learn more, read our written articles, and to subscribe to our email newsletter, visit https://heatpump.review/
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In Episode 4, I speak to Rolf Bienert, the founding Managing Director of the OpenADR Alliance. OpenADR Alliance is the non-profit standard maker and certifying body for the biggest and most widely adopted open standard for “demand response” (DR) protocols that impact EV chargers, HVAC, and electric water heaters.
In this episode, Rolf and I spend the first half of the conversation getting a broader overview of what DR is and the present state of the industry in terms of its adoption by OEMs and utilities. We also discuss the consumer incentives which have driven DR out of HVAC appliances and into the thermostat while mostly keeping DR protocols out of our water heaters.
Finally, we spend the last half of the interview talking about the new standard called EcoPort (aka CTA 2045) and the recent legislation in Washington, Oregon and California which will likely change the DR story for water heaters nationwide – giving a new boost to water heating DR programs that have languished in recent years.
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