1. A method, comprising: separating a collection of devices configured for participation in a Demand Response (DR) event into an On-to-Off DR device set (“On-to-Off set”) and an Off-to-On DR device set (“Off-to-On set”); portioning into one or more transition groups one or more devices of the On-to-Off set and/or one or more devices of the Off-to-On set, the portioning being based at least partially on latency involved in command communication with one or more of the devices; scheduling state transitions of the transition groups such that an energy curtailment during the state transitions meets a curtailment margin of a total curtailment of the DR event; and executing, during a DR event duration, a micro DR event that includes the state transitions in which the devices in the transition groups are transitioned from a current state to an alternative state and in which the micro DR event curtails a particular curtailment amount that is a portion of a total energy curtailment for the DR event.