Load impact of interruptible and curtailable rate programs: evidence from ten utilities [tariff incentives]

Author

Caves, Douglas W. ; Herriges, Joseph A. ; Hanser, Philip ; Windle, Robert J.

Author_Institution

Christensen Associates, Madison, WI, USA

Volume

3

Issue

4

fYear

1988

fDate

11/1/1988 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1757

Lastpage

1763

Abstract

The authors present the results from a two-year study of industrial and commercial response to interruptible and commercial response to interruptible/curtailable (I/C) tariff programmes. The project draws on data from ten utilities and 147 customers with I/C service. A statistical procedure for measuring the load relief obtained from an interruption is outlined and compared to techniques based on average demand and day matching. Estimates of load relief are then presented for the ten utilities. While the estimates indicate that customer compliance is generally good, a significant disparity is found between the measured load relief and the load relief used to award customer credits

Keywords

electricity supply industry; load management; tariffs; USA; customer credits; demand; electricity supply industry; load management; load relief; statistical procedure; tariff; utilities; Availability; Continuous wavelet transforms; Cost benefit analysis; IEEE members; Measurement standards; Power markets; Power measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8950

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/59.192993

Filename

192993