same as the last one . Helpful for seamers , annoying for the batsmen . Could ' ve been 3 out by now , Raval and Williamson both dropped . <| sep |> Under some scenarios , there might be a higher spot price for energy curtailment or on demand generation than the current market rate of that energy or avoided energy demand . Net Metering , for the most part , is already avoided energy demand under daylight hours . Demandside curtailment response is generally applied equally to all effected parties i . e . residential as an incentive payment for reduction of load . For now , these are voluntary programs that pay more for the avoided energy than it would cost the consumer as demand , with the premise that the grid operator is maintaining equipment that is already capitalized rather than endanger said equipment . The avoided cost of additional infrastructure would be more expensive than cost of the demand response programs in aggregate .