Residential response to time-of-use rates: Volume 4, Assessing RETOU's out-of-sample performance: Final report. [Test of computer codes on utilities not involved in it's development]

Technical Report · Sat Feb 28 23:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6744779

Caves, D W; Christensen, L R; Herriges, J A; Windle, R J

The goal of the RETOU transferability project was to develop a model that utilities could use to simulate residential customer load changes in response to mandatory time-of-use (TOU) electric rate structures. Technical reports EA-3560, Volumes 1-3, describe the RETOU model and the data used in its estimation. This volume presents the results of using the model to predict customer's response to TOU electricity rates for a utility not included in the initial sample. To assess the potential for transferability we developed a separate model for each of five high quality residential experiments. These models related customer response to the TOU price structure and to conditioning variables such as customer characteristics, climate and appliance holdings. Statistical tests were then carried out to determine whether customer response was consistent across the experiments. These tests confirmed the existence of consistency, and supported the conclusion that it is possible to use a single model to simulate customer response for a wide range of service territories in the United States. 20 figs., 15 tabs.

• Research Organization: Christensen (Laurits R.) Associates, Inc., Madison, WI (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6744779
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EM-3560-Vol.4; ON: TI87920292
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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24 POWER TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION
COMPUTER CODES
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
LOAD ANALYSIS
LOAD MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PRICES
PUBLIC UTILITIES
R CODES
RATE STRUCTURE
RESIDENTIAL SECTOR
TESTING
TIME-OF-USE PRICING
VALIDATION