Conservation
8/16/2009 1:40:44 PM EST
Conservation could reduce peak electricity demand by 20%, notes FERC report
Partner, Ropers Majeski Kohn & Bentley
A recent FERC report notes that conservation measures by both business and residential electricity customers (known as demand response programs) could reduce peak demand by as much as 20%. The decreased demand could prevent the need for several hundred powerplants.
Using a variety of scenarios, demand response programs could yield reductions ranging from 38 gigawatts to 188 gigawatts by 2019. [To put these amounts in perspective, the total output of Hoover Dam is 2 gigawatts.] Without such programs, demand will continue to grow at a rate of 1.7% per year, reaching 950 gigawatts by 2019.
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