Electricity Markets: Consumers Could Benefit from Demand Programs, but Challenges Remain

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Year: 2004
Pages: 62
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756745802

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Jim Wells (au); Dan Haas (au). The efficient & reliable functioning of the more than $200 billion electric industry is vital to all Americans. As demonstrated in the 2003 blackout in the Northeast & the 2001 energy crisis in the West, changes in the cost & availability of electricity can have significant impacts on consumers & the national economy. The Fed. Energy Reg’y. Comm. supports using demand-response programs as part of its effort to develop & oversee competitive electricity markets. This report identifies: (1) the types of demand-response programs currently in use; (2) the benefits of these programs; (3) the barriers to their intro. & expansion; & (4) instances where barriers have been overcome. Also examined the fed. govt.’s participation in these programs through the GSA.

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