Prediction and assessment of demand response potential with coupon incentives in highly renewable power systems

Table 5 Comparison between EnergyCoupon and previous experiment

Comparison item	Critical peak pricing	EnergyCoupon
Category	Price-based DR	Incentive-based DR
Treatment group size	71	29
Experiment length	Jun - Oct	Jun – Aug
Number of DR days	Certain CPP days (12)	Daily (77)
Peak hours	Noon – 6 pm	1–7 pm
Energy reduction	12%	10.7%^a
Effective cost compared with retail price^b	368%	58.8%

^aElectricity reductions for active and inactive and inactive subjects are 34.8% and 7.36%, respectively
^bWe choose retail price in Anaheim in 2005 as $0.095/kWh [48], and average retail price in Woodland, TX in 2017 as $0.090/kWh [13]