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Electric Utility Rate Design Study: rate design study - load research

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5681385
An investigation and its findings are reported relating to the Load Research portion of Topic I of the Electric Utility Rate Design Study, 1978 Plan of Study, December 21, 1977. This report summarizes the efforts to meet four broad objectives: (1) obtain as much information as possible regarding past, present, and future load-research tests which provide data regarding the time of use of electrical energy useful in time-differentiated energy and demand analyses and in the design of time-of-day rate schedules; this includes load research of residential, rural, farm, commercial, industrial, and municipal classes of service, and load research of individual appliances and equipment; (2) obtain as much information as possible regarding the load-research aspects of past, present, and future time-of-day rate experiments including base rate schedules for the control customers and experimental rate schedules for the test customers; (3) review, analyze, and catalog the information stated above in an appropriate manner; and (4) recommend guidelines for future load research so that data obtained will be more usable by ratemakers, system planners and financial analysts.
Research Organization:
Gilbert Associates, Inc., Reading, PA (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
OSTI ID:
5681385
Report Number(s):
NP-22578(Vol.1)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English