Pro e contro della Demand Response tra letteratura e sperimentazioni.

The article explores the potential of demand response (DR) in an energy transition scenario, where transmission and distribution grids are increasingly exposed to the intermittency of renewable sources. The results that emerge from the most recent literature and from the Californian case study, where many experiments have been carried out on DR, in particular in its most promising version («load shift»), are ambivalent: encouraging as regards the existence of sufficient resources to absorb the daily and more regular fluctuations of intermittent renewable production; less encouraging as regards the involvement of residential consumers in DR programs based on dynamic prices which would, in theory, allow a more efficient participation of demand in the electricity markets.