Re-engineering DSM: Opportunities through information and integration
Journal Article
·
· Electricity Journal; (United States)
Virtually all of today's DSM suffers from a supply-side orientation. Utilities have the opportunity now to re-engineer their organizations by integrating their DSM activities with other company functions through an expanded approach to information resources and technology. Demand-side management made its first significant appearance in the power industry in the late 1970's as a means of offsetting or deferring conventional generation. In this role, DSM came to be thought of as a resource in its own right - a resource that produced [open quotes]negawatts,[close quotes] not watts. Ironically, this view of DSM contributed to the development of integrated resource planning techniques and cost-effectiveness models that strongly emphasized a supply-side orientation. Unfortunately, the supply-side orientation masks the expanded role that DSM technologies can play as catalysts in modernizing and re-engineering power industry customer service and system operating practices. A supply-side perspective fails to recognize that utilities are fundamentally in business to provide energy services - something that DSM is very capable of supporting. DSM can provide utilities with technology and information resources that simultaneously integrate business and planning systems with day-to-day system operations. An integrated (also known as a systems engineering or re-engineering) approach to DSM can also provide utilities with strategic, operational, and competitive benefits that are currently being overlooked.
- OSTI ID:
- 5286245
- Journal Information:
- Electricity Journal; (United States), Journal Name: Electricity Journal; (United States) Vol. 6:9; ISSN ELEJE4; ISSN 1040-6190
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Demand-side management opportunities through business system and technology integration
Do diminishing marginal returns apply to DSM?
Comparison of methods to integrate DSM and supply resources in electric-utility planning
Conference
·
Fri Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1994
·
OSTI ID:192149
Do diminishing marginal returns apply to DSM?
Journal Article
·
Sun May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1994
· Electricity Journal
·
OSTI ID:28596
Comparison of methods to integrate DSM and supply resources in electric-utility planning
Technical Report
·
Sat Nov 30 23:00:00 EST 1991
·
OSTI ID:10111782