Impacts of Western Area Power Administration's power marketing alternatives on utility demand-side management and conservation and renewable energy programs

摘要

The Western Area Power Administration (Western) requires all of its long-term firm power customers to implement programs that promote the conservation of electric energy or facilitate the use of renewable energy resources. Western has also proposed that all customers develop integrated resource plans that include cost-effective demand-side management programs. As part of the preparation of Western's Electric Power Marketing Environmental Impact Statement, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) developed estimates of the reductions in energy demand resulting from Western's conservation and renewable energy activities in its Salt Lake City Area Office. ANL has also estimated the energy-demand reductions from cost-effective, demand-side management programs that could be included in the integrated resource plans of the customers served by Western's Salt Lake City Area Office. The results of this study have been used to adjust the expected hourly demand for Western's major systems in the Salt Lake City Area. The expected hourly demand served as the basis for capacity expansion plans develops with ANL's Production and Capacity Expansion (PACE) model.