Electricity Demand Side Management and its Different Promotion Measures

On the basis of introducing the principle of economizing electricity measures, aiming at the resistance presently met in the promotion of electricity demand side management (DSM), this paper raised an objection about making the electricity company as the implement body of DSM, and offered a guidance that who is willing to benefit, who should take on the promotion of DSM. According to different types of economizing electricity measures, promotion tactics of DSM were suggested as follows: Electricity company charges with load control; Government department makes economy measures of saving electricity; Investment company or energy intermediary company accepts responsibility for promoting equipment of store-up electricity, organizes and acts DSM by project, Project´s proportion of cost-benefit and form of paying will be negotiated by contractor unit and consumer both sides; Government department is in charge of paying and decomposes DSM task of economizing electricity by high efficiency; Through project management, competitive - bidding, Winner will perform DSM project. Its auditing, supervision and acceptance will be done by government department.