Effects of Load Sector Demand Side Management Applications in Generating Capacity Adequacy Assessment

Electric power utilities are facing increasing infrastructure investment and awareness of environmental issues. Demand side management (DSM) can play an important role in meeting some of the challenges faced by electric power utilities in that it can be used to improve energy efficiency, system reliability, and security, reduce costs for both customers and utilities, and mitigate environmental damage. This paper applies load shifting on seven different customer load sectors and illustrates the effects of the various DSM measures on the load shapes and on the system reliability indices used in generating capacity adequacy assessment.