The planning, executing and monitoring of utility activities designed to help customers use electricity more efficiently.
Actions undertaken to reduce the amount of energy required for end-use applications in residences, commercial buildings, or in industrial processes. Examples include installing high-efficiency light bulbs and appliances, improving insulation, and installing energy-efficient motors. Because reducing demand for energy can help avoid the need for new generating capacity, DSM activities are often cost-beneficial to electric utilities. To the extent that they reduce required generation, DSM activities also help to reduce emissions of CO2 and other pollutants.
The planning and implementation of strategies designed to encourage consumers to improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs, change the time of usage, or promote the use of different energy source.( 081)
The methods used to manage energy demand including energy efficiency, load management, fuel substitution and load building. See Load Management.
1. Refers to measures taken by a utility to encourage conservation of electric usage or to reschedule electric usage for more uniform usage throughout the day or year. Such efforts are intended at minimizing the size and number of generating facilities or designing strategic load growth. 2. Planning, implementation, and evaluation of utility-sponsored programs to change the timing or reduce the amount of a customer's energy consumption.
The planning, implementation and evaluation of conservation and load manipulation to use electricity more efficiently.
Measures or programs undertaken by a utility designed to influence the level or timing of customer demands for energy in order to optimize the use of available supply resources, thus allowing suppliers to defer the purchase of additional generating capacity.
an attempt by utilities to reduce customers' demand for electricity or energy by encouraging efficiency.
Measures undertaken by utilities and/or consumers to control the level of energy usage at a given time, typically by decreasing total consumption or by shifting consumption to some other time period.
Refers to utility programs intended to affect the timing or amount of customer electricity use. These include energy efficiency programs aimed at reducing the energy required to serve customer needs and programs that shift electricity demand to reduce peak loads or to make more economic use of utility resources.