Utility shareholders can lose money on demand-side management (DSM) investments between rate cases. Several industry … investment. A key utility regulatory reform undertaken since 1989 allows utilities to recover the lost revenues incurred through … investment behavior. Third, we suggest improvements to NLRA mechanisms. We first identify states with NLRA mechanisms where …

This paper describes the results of a study to assess the application of DSM evaluation results to utility forecasting … and planning. The paper has three objectives: (1) identify forecasting and planning applications of evaluation studies, (2 …) identify major obstacles and problems associated with applying evaluation results to forecasting and planning, and (3) suggest …

more in supply-side and demand-side management is the opportunity for the electric utility industry to become a significant …

possibility of developing a methodology to facilitate the evaluation of alternative rate schedules. To meet the objectives of this … schedule screening and evaluation process was to characterize the process itself, identify problem areas, and develop a …

plans that include not only traditional electricity supply options but also demand-side management (DSM) options … demand, stringency of future environmental regulations) cannot ever be known with certainty. Many economically significant …

activities. Four off-the-shelf energy system modeling tools were considered: (1) ENPEP (Energy and Power Evaluation Program) - a … conducted in three stages: data evaluation, base-case analysis, and comparative case analysis. For ENPEP and ICARUS, open source …