Patent ID: 8676953

Claim:
A method for managing demand response resources, comprising: providing a utility/Independent Source Operator (ISO); providing a first set of two or more demand response (DR) resources; aggregating the DR resources into one DR resource at the utility/ISO; providing a DR event; generating DR signals from the DR event for the one DR resource; and providing a second set of two or more DR resources; wherein: the DR signals are conveyed from an entity to the two or more DR resources; DR resource information is conveyed from the two or more resources to the entity; the DR resource information is aggregated at the entity by the utility/ISO; and the second set of the two or more DR resources are aggregated by at least one DR resource of the first set of the two or more DR resources; and wherein: the DR signals at the utility/ISO are designed for the one DR resource; and the DR signals are disaggregated at the one DR resource for conveyance to the two or more DR resources.