Time-differentiated system load impacts of demand-side management: A case study

✍ Scribed by Ken Monts; Ira Birnbaum; Beverly Bonevac; Eric Rothstein

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 574 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7796
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7796(89)90009-6

✦ Synopsis

Demand-side management is rapidly assuming an integral role in electric utility resource planning. Detailed time-differentiated system load forecasts are critical inputs for the successful integration of demand-side options. An examination of the expected impacts of demand-side management at the City of Austin's municipally owned utility reveals significant changes in the system load, ranging from considerable load factor improvement to significant reductions in intermediate-load capacity requirements to differential impacts on the relative customer class contributions to the system coincident peak.