Ballots & Voting Survey

Economic/Market: Lack of Clearly Defined Needs and Value to utility/BPA

Economic/Market: Low power costs

Economic/Market: Lack of a region-wide framework for valuing and pricing DR

Economic/Market: Absence of organized market for DR resources in the NW

Economic/Market: Inadequate/inconsistent price signals

Economic/Market: Cost of development and deployment

Organizational/Operational: Competing priorities for human and financial resources

Organizational/Operational: Lack of staff technical expertise and capability

Organizational/Operational: Insufficient intra-organizational coordination/communication

Organizational/Operational: DR reliability and dispatchability

Infrastructural/Technological: Data issues - lack of AMI deployment

Infrastructural/Technological: Data issues - poor "big data" analytical tools and capabilities

Infrastructural/Technological: Lack of uniform communications protocol; interoperability issues

Infrastructural/Technological: Difficulty integrating DR with existing infrastructure and back office systems

Infrastructural/Technological: Need for investment in back-end technologies

Legal/Regulatory: Trading demand resources across balancing authorities

Legal/Regulatory: Lack of established tariffs and contractual framework for DR

Perceptual: Lack of long-term commitment in the procurement of DR services

Perceptual: Weak end-user demand for DR programs

Perceptual: Lack of business case - high up-front costs/long ROI/lack of materiality

Perceptual: Lack of awareness/knowledge

Ecomonic/Market: Connecting planning needs to implementation realities

Organizational/Operational: Appropriately characterizing DR in long term planning processes