DR Potential of Residential Appliances - Refrigerator

This project is part of a larger Southern California Edison (SCE) effort to evaluate Demand Response (DR) capabilities of various residential appliances in a laboratory environment. Several manufacturers have recently developed DR-capable appliances, but little is known about how DR capabilities will be implemented and what useful benefit from DR can be extracted by the utility. The testing performed under this project will give SCE a better understanding of how specific appliances will react to certain DR signals before these appliances are installed at customer sites.

The overarching DR Appliance project is aimed at three types of residential appliances: refrigerators, dish washers, and clothes washers. This report is focused on refrigerator A, manufactured by a company referred to as manufacturer A.