Information systems to support area planning

Technical Report · Fri Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:226964

Chow, P ^[1]

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1. British Columbia Hydro (Canada)

EPRI has conducted more than $3 million dollars of tailored collaboration research with utilities interested in developing area and time specific (ATS) data for use in planning and pricing. This ATS data has led to a number of data transformation, planning, and pricing tools. British Columbia Hydro (BC Hydro) is among the vanguard of utilities who have contributed to the formation of both data and methods in this new area. Several leading utilities, including BC Hydro, are now beginning to ask how they can transform the data used in their own particular studies to develop internal planning and pricing processes that lower costs and increase margin. This presentation describes a project underway at BC Hydro to harness and apply this information. Other utilities have applied the data in the following ways: Philadelphia Energy Company believes that by changing the capital evaluation standards to require the use of ATS data, they will develop a better local area planning process. Central Power and Light, and Pacific Gas and Electric Company have gained regulatory approval for use of ATS costing and load data in pricing and planning. Niagara Mohawk believes that making the ATS data relatively easy to access and use is the first step towards incorporating the data into their existing utility planning and pricing processes. BC Hydro`s project will accommodate all of these applications and goals, and will also position BC Hydro for a competitive future.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Barakat and Chamberlin, Inc., Oakland, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 226964
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR--105791; CONF-9508115--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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