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Thursday, November 20, 2008

DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT

DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT

ABSTRACT

Power system planning has become considerably more complex today because of uncertainties in load growth, fuel prices & fuel availability & concern for environment. New options such as clean coal, technologies, storage & renewable technologies; demand side management & co-generation are being pursued as solution to meet these new challenges.

Power shortages have been in force in India ever since seventies. The state electricity boards have resorted to restricting consumption in order to meet the rapid growth in demand from various consumer categories. The cuts have ranged from 10 to 60 % in several state electricity boards. The question of load management through the pricing option has been only tried on a limited scale in very less boards in the country.

This paper presents “Need for demand side management” & importance of pricing mechanism & also impact of the experiences of the utilities who have adopted prizing as a means load management & identify the factors that would have to be considered in order to implement an efficient prizing mechanism for load management.

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