The interest in managing electricity demand surfaced in earnest during the 1970s as economic, political, social, technological, and resource supply factors combined to change the electricity sectors’ operating environment and its outlook for the future. Ever since then, a successive series of concepts have evolved as an effective way of mitigating these risks including: demand-side management (DSM), demand response (DR), and transactive energy. Ten papers were accepted for this special section on Managing Electricity Demand.