Patent ID: 8630744

Claim:
A structure for management and monitoring of automated demand response in a multi-site enterprise, comprising: a utility that supplies energy to a participant, wherein the participant is a multi-site enterprise; an automated demand response system connected to the utility that provides demand response events; an energy management and control system at each of two or more sites of the participant that receives energy from the utility, connected to the automated demand response system; and an energy management and control system supervisor connected to each energy management and control system at the two or more sites; wherein the energy management and control system supervisor is configured to allow the participant to initiate a demand response event opt-out action; and wherein a demand response event opt-out action is any of at least two varieties of opt-out actions, the at least two varieties of opt-out actions comprising: a global opt-out action in which each energy management and control system at the two or more sites is notified of the demand response event opt-out action; and an individual site opt-out action in which an energy management and control system at one of the two or more sites is notified of the demand response event opt-out action.