Pacific Gas and Electric Company. Financial Impacts on Utilities of Load Shape Changes Project. Stage II Technical Report

摘要

The goal of this LBL project is to develop tools and procedures that measure the financial impacts of load shape changes to utility stockholders. In this application, the financial impacts of exogenous policies that raise the efficiencies of residential appliances are studied. The analysis is based on detailed forecasts of energy use by computer simulation models developed at LBL. These models disaggregate both annual energy use and hourly system electric loads at the end-use level. This detail is essential for calculating production and capacity cost benefits, and tariff-class specific revenue changes. Several analytical procedures commonly employed by the industry independent of one another are combined into an integrated assessment of the impacts of load shape changes on utility shareholders. (ERA citation 11:038207)