When Commercial Demand Takes the Lead: Rethinking Grid Planning for a New Load Era
by Nick Tumilowicz from POWER Magazine on (#79JWG)
For decades, electric utilities have planned around a relatively predictable relationship between population growth, economic activity, weather and electricity consumption. Demand increased gradually, infrastructure investments followed long-term forecasts and utilities generally had time to prepare for changes in where and how electricity was consumed. That planning model is being tested. The U.S. Energy Information Administration [...]
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