Electric-Utility Demand-Side Programs: Resources for the 1990S.

摘要

The primary purpose of this paper is to suggest much larger and more active roles for electric utilities in acquiring energy-efficiency and load-management resources. Valuable utility actions include increased efforts to assess existing and new demand-side technologies; to test alternative ways to implement demand-side programs; to aggressively acquire energy and capacity resources through efficiency and load-management programs; to develop innovative pricing mechanisms to modify load shapes and levels and to encourage participation in utility programs; to work with governments to support efficiency standards for new buildings, appliances, and other energy-using equipment; to integrate their planning for demand-side programs with planning for supply resources; and to incorporate the risk-reduction benefits of demand-side programs into their resource planning. These activities will improve the efficiency with which energy and capital resources are used (rather than suppress electricity demand per se). In so doing, these utility programs will enhance economic productivity and international competitiveness and reduce emissions of pollutants from power plants. 43 refs., 5 figs., 3 tabs. (ERA citation 14:028518)