Guest Editorial Special Section on Industrial and Commercial Demand Response.

The eleven papers in this special section focus on the industrial and commercial potential of demand response (DR). Customers from this non-residential market base have great potential in providing flexibility for power systems through diverse demand response (DR) programs. Intelligent energy management can be carried out with DR in industrial and commercial facilities, especially if onsite control, information, and communication technologies are available, enabling also the inherent automation capabilities of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. In the dawn of the Smart Grid era, with increasing distributed generation and the conversion of traditionally passive consumers to newly active energy players in the market, DR is being effectively considered for outage management and network reinforcement deferral. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]