What could save Arizona tens of millions in annual customer and infrastructure costs? Residential pool pumps.

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Vladimir Abdelnour is an energy researcher and Nathan Johnson is professor and director of the Laboratory for Energy And Power Solutions at Arizona State University. LEAPS works at the intersection of technology, business models, and policy to accelerate energy innovations to implementation and scale.

Vladimir Abdelnour

The fastest and most cost-effective way to ensure resource adequacy and create headroom for new growth is to better use the resources we already have. In Arizona, pool pumps can make a big difference.

Demand response programs have shown the ability to shift energy use and delay or avoid the need to build new assets to meet peak system demand. They can defer billions of dollars in centralized generation upgrades by leveraging customer-procured generation, storage, and load control. In aggregate, these assets can be coordinated and controlled as virtual power plants to defer or displace the build-out of large-scale generation.