Electric Utility Rate Design Study: attitudes and opinions of experimental customers toward load-management alternatives, Topic 10

Technical Report · Fri Aug 05 04:00:00 EDT 1977

OSTI ID:5231442

Kuenstler, D A

This report describes the results of attitude and opinion surveys conducted among 15 experimental customer groups within five utility services areas participating in FEA-sponsored load-management experiments. A total of 332 residential, commercial, and industrial customers were interviewed in person. The questioning used to secure the attitude and opinion information was virtually identical to that administered to ''representative U.S.'' samples of customers interviewed in May-June 1976. A report of those surveys was published by the Electric Utility Rate Design Study, January 3, 1977. The surveys among experimental customer groups were conducted to secure information that could be used to compare the attitudes of those participating in the experiments with those not participating (the representative U.S. samples) and, also, to make comparisons among the various time-of-day, seasonal rates, air-conditioning control, and industrial load-shifting experiments studied.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, Calif. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5231442
• Report Number(s): NP-22500
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
296000* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Electric Power
CHARGES
COMMERCIAL SECTOR
COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS
COST
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
INDUSTRY
LOAD MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
PEAK-LOAD PRICING
PUBLIC OPINION
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RATE STRUCTURE
RESIDENTIAL SECTOR
RESOURCE CONSERVATION
US FEA
US ORGANIZATIONS