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Demand-controlling marketing of electric utilities

Abstract

In situations like the shortage of energy resources the particular autonomy of the users concerning energy demand raises more and more aggravating problems for the electric utilities (EU) and, last not least, for society (i.e. the peak-load problem, threatening bottlenecks in the supply situation). Thus the requirement for a demand-controlling marketing strategy of the EU with the help of which the individual demand should be influenced in the following manner is legitimate. The article discusses the targets, strategies, and instruments of marketing performed by the EU under the aspect of their efficiency concerning demand control. The discussion leads to e.g. the following results: that a marketing strategy for the sensible, responsible, and efficent use of energy, in the long-term, serves both the interests of the users and the interests of the EU; that such a marketing programme can have the required controlling effects especially with the help of strategies like market segmentation and cooperation. The discussion makes also clear that a demand-controlling marketing strategy of the EU can hardly be realized without a considerable change within the organization of the EU on one hand and, on the other, without expanding the marketing programme toward a marketing strategy of balance.
Authors:
Publication Date:
Jan 01, 1980
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EPA-08-002045; EDB-82-056716
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Betriebswirtschaft.; (Germany, Federal Republic of); Journal Volume: 40:4
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ECONOMIC POLICY; MARKETING RESEARCH; ELECTRIC POWER; ENERGY DEMAND; ENERGY POLICY; LOAD MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL IMPACT; DEMAND; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; MANAGEMENT; POWER; PUBLIC UTILITIES; 296000* - Energy Planning & Policy- Electric Power; 200106 - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Economics; 292000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Supply, Demand & Forecasting
OSTI ID:
5695770
Country of Origin:
Germany
Language:
German
Submitting Site:
DE
Size:
Pages: 561-575
Announcement Date:
Jan 01, 1982

Citation Formats

Raffee, H, and Fritz, W. Demand-controlling marketing of electric utilities. Germany: N. p., 1980. Web.
Raffee, H, & Fritz, W. Demand-controlling marketing of electric utilities. Germany.
Raffee, H, and Fritz, W. 1980. "Demand-controlling marketing of electric utilities." Germany.
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abstractNote = {In situations like the shortage of energy resources the particular autonomy of the users concerning energy demand raises more and more aggravating problems for the electric utilities (EU) and, last not least, for society (i.e. the peak-load problem, threatening bottlenecks in the supply situation). Thus the requirement for a demand-controlling marketing strategy of the EU with the help of which the individual demand should be influenced in the following manner is legitimate. The article discusses the targets, strategies, and instruments of marketing performed by the EU under the aspect of their efficiency concerning demand control. The discussion leads to e.g. the following results: that a marketing strategy for the sensible, responsible, and efficent use of energy, in the long-term, serves both the interests of the users and the interests of the EU; that such a marketing programme can have the required controlling effects especially with the help of strategies like market segmentation and cooperation. The discussion makes also clear that a demand-controlling marketing strategy of the EU can hardly be realized without a considerable change within the organization of the EU on one hand and, on the other, without expanding the marketing programme toward a marketing strategy of balance.}
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