Office of Utility Technologies success stories
In the National Energy Strategy the Department of Energy (DOE) projected that even with aggressive conservation and efficiency efforts, US electrical demand will increase from about 700 gigawatts (GW) in 1990 to nearly 900 GW by 2010. As part of this projection, the NES estimates that about 40 GW of current capacity will be retired by 2010, and another 340 GW will need to be refurbished for extended life. Thus, even if all the plant life extensions are carried out, approximately 240 GW of new capacity will be needed in that 20-year time span. Our nation's utilities have a growing number of options available for meeting this anticipated increase in demand. These options include the greater use of demand-side management techniques to further reduce the anticipated growth in demand; the provision of increasing amounts of electricity from domestic, environmentally attractive, renewable energy sources; and more effective use of the utility sector's substantial existing assets in generation, transmission, and distribution systems. The Office of Utility Technologies, part of DOE's Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy, is working collaboratively with utilities and industry to address the technological and institutional constraints that impede utility adoption of renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, and to realize the full market potential for these technologies, both here and abroad. This document presents brief descriptions of specific projects supported and carried out successfully by the Office of Utility Technologies as part of its effort to carry out this mission. These success stories'' range from significant research results to commercialization of new technologies. Each success story stands alone as a specific achievement, but when taken as a whole, the success stories form a collage that suggests a vision of the future for utilities.
- Research Organization:
- National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-83CH10093
- OSTI ID:
- 6499158
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/CH/10093-125; ON: DE92001193
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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