Demand response event dissemination system and method

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a client device, peer data from a demand response (DR) application server, the peer data descriptive of how the client device communicates with the DR application server through a first peer client of a plurality of peer clients such that the client device is configured to receive messages from the DR application server through the first peer client and the client device is configured to send messages to the DR application server through the first peer client;
• receiving, at the client device, from a first peer client, announcement data descriptive of a set of DR events, the announcement data having been generated by the DR application server and communicated to the client device through the first peer client according to the peer data;
• receiving, at the client device, from the first peer client, according to the peer data, beacon data descriptive of a DR event, the beacon data having been generated by the first peer client;
• and
• determining, at the client device, that the DR event described by the beacon data is not included in the set of DR events of the announcement data.