LOAD SHAPING: A CRITICAL END USE RESPONSE TO ELECTRIC UTILITY DEREGULATION

摘要

As with many situations in life wherein we are faced with uncertainties born of change, the impending deregulation of the electric utility industry holds more than its share of mysteries. However, we do know that power providers will be competing for customers as never before, we do know that these power providers will be seeking a competitive edge through reductions in their own generating costs as never before, and we di know that a primary means of reducing those generating costs is by improving the load shape of their customer base. Therefore, it follows that a proactive facility manager will undertake to understand, quantify, control and modify his/her own load shape in order to make his/her account more attractive to the power providers with whom he/she negotiates. Moreover, as an added incentive, we see that the benefits of load shaping extend beyond the economic incentives to the end user, and include environmental benefits to us all.