Electric Utility Rate Design Study: potential cost advantages of peak-load pricing; Topic 6

Technical Report · Tue Feb 15 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:5194769

Wood, A J

This study is intended to demonstrate methodology and specify data requirements for studying the potential economic ''benefits'' to an electric utility that makes use of load management or a load-modification program to improve daily and/or annual load factors and inhibit the growth rate of system peak-load demands. This study was specifically aimed at considering the potential cost advantages of load management using time-of-day rates. The topics considered included: development of methodology by which companies may determine the advantages of load shifting which could be attendant upon peak-load pricing including; development of data requirements for a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis of peak-load pricing; and application of methodology in representative situations.

• Research Organization: Power Technologies, Inc., Schenectady, N.Y. (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, Calif. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5194769
• Report Number(s): NP-22537
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
296000* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Electric Power
CHARGES
COMPUTER CODES
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC IMPACT
ELECTRIC POWER
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
FORECASTING
LOAD MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PEAK-LOAD PRICING
POWER
POWER DEMAND
POWER GENERATION
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RATE STRUCTURE