SINGAPORE – In a first-of-its-kind initiative to get households to help manage the load on the electricity grid, residents in homes equipped with smart meters will be called upon to adjust their electricity usage during peak demand periods.
The initiative, called Residential Demand Response (R-DR), is targeted to start by the second half of 2024 and will involve about 1,000 households that have smart electricity meters provided by utilities firm SP Group, said the Energy Market Authority (EMA) on Tuesday.
These households will receive alerts from the SP app to temporarily cut down or defer their electricity usage during demand peaks in the power system.