Demand-side management glossary

Technical Report · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6960128

Isaksen, L ^[1]; Ignelzi, P C ^[2]

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1. Analysis and Control of Energy Systems, Inc., Burlingame, CA (United States)
2. Pacific Consulting Services, Albany, CA (United States)

Demand-side management (DSM) plays an increasingly important role in helping utilities meet capacity needs while addressing important customer service issues. In implementing utility-specific programs, however, DSM professionals have created an entire vocabulary of words and phrases that are often used and interpreted in very different ways by people with similar utility planning backgrounds. Such inconsistent terminology can hamper the very communication DSM seeks to support. Thus, this report-the first of its kind-presents a glossary of DSM terms, grouped under five major categories: (1) utility systems, (2) programs and techniques, (3) costs, revenues, and rates, (4) modeling and analysis, and (5) marketing. An index facilitates the rapid search for key words. This glossary together with a complimentary report entitled, Electric Utility DSM Programs: Terminology and Reporting Formats attempts to define some of the most common terms used in DSM today.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Analysis and Control of Energy Systems, Inc., Burlingame, CA (United States); Pacific Consulting Services, Albany, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6960128
• Report Number(s): EPRI-TR-101158
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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