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[Toby Considine <toby.considine@gmail.com>]

??what are the consequences of that if a customer is considered a single DR Resource by the Utility? ? The customer is a billing and contractual entity. Example: ChainStore with 500 stores. 400 Stores have ESI ??s installed. 300 of those are customers of MyUtility Those 300 ESI ??s register and get 300 PartyIDs 250 of those enter into event-based programs / enroll as VENs. The 300 PartyIDs are rolled up into the same Utility Bill and sent to the same customer / billing address Those 300 IDs are likely in different towns with different congestion / equipment failure / shortage scenarios, meaning they are unlikely to represent a single DR resource. We * could * use the words differently, but we are slowly crawling toward a normative definition for each of these words as used in EnergyInterop Phil and I were just talking and he pointed out that for home users, the power is turned on only if a MeterId is associated with a PremisesID is associated with a CustomerID that is willing to pay. A Meter may be swapped out; if so the meter ID travels with the meter, and a new meterID is then associated with the Premise/Customer combination. A Customer can move to the other side of town and keep the same CustomerID, which is then associated with a new PremiseID and MeterID. A single premise may have multiple meters. If we extend this, then a VEN represents a MeterID / PremiseID combination (if operating at that level). A Customer may own / reside in multiple Premises. All DR Resources are local, meaning tied to that Premise / Meter (or sets of meters) Corollary: All PartyIDs are tied to Premise/Meters Exchange of Customer IDs is merely a convenience to the VTN during Enrollment tc "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster, and if you stare long into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you."     - Fredrich Nietzche Toby Considine TC9, Inc TC Chair: oBIX & WS-Calendar TC Editor: EMIX, EnergyInterop U.S. National Inst. of Standards and Tech. Smart Grid Architecture Committee Email: Toby.Considine@gmail.com Phone: (919)619-2104 http://www.tcnine.com/ blog: www.NewDaedalus.com