Analysis of the need for intermediate and peaking technologies in the year 2000. Final report

Technical Report · Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6842452· OSTI ID:6842452

Barrager, S M; Campbell, G L

This analysis was conducted to assess the impact of load management on the future need for intermediate- and peak-generating technologies (IPTs) such as combustion turbines, pumped storage, and cycling coal plants. There would be a reduced need for IPTs if load-management activities such as time-of-use pricing, together with customer-owned energy-storage devices, hot-water-heater controls, and interruptible service can economically remove most of the variation from electric power demands. The objective of this analysis is to assess the need for IPTs in an uncertain future, which will probably include load management and time-differentiated electricity prices. The analysis is exploratory in nature and broad in scope. It does not attempt to predict the future or to model precisely the technical characteristics or economic desirability of load management. Rather, its purpose is to provide research and development planners with some basic insights into the order of magnitude of possible hourly demand shifts on a regional basis and to determine the impact of load management on daily and seasonal variations in electricity demand.

• Research Organization: Decision Focus, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-79ET29999
• OSTI ID: 6842452
• Report Number(s): DOE/ET/29999-T1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
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ELECTRIC UTILITIES
LOAD MANAGEMENT
SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
TIME-OF-USE PRICING
POWER GENERATION
PEAK LOAD
CONTROL SYSTEMS
DEMAND FACTORS
ELECTRIC POWER
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
MANAGEMENT
POWER
PRICES
PUBLIC UTILITIES
296000* - Energy Planning & Policy- Electric Power