Utility Scale DSM Opportunities and Business Models in India
The Ministry of Power, Government of India, defines Demand Side Management (DSM) as ‘actions of a Distribution Licensee (Utility), beyond the customer's meter, with the objective of altering the end-use of electricity - whether it is to increa...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/422921488948129217/Utility-scale-DSM-opportunities-and-business-models-in-India-prepared-for-the-WorldBank-energy-and-extractives-global-practice-South-Asia-Region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26316 |
| Summary: | The Ministry of Power, Government of
India, defines Demand Side Management (DSM) as ‘actions of a
Distribution Licensee (Utility), beyond the customer's
meter, with the objective of altering the end-use of
electricity - whether it is to increase demand, decrease it,
shift it between high and low peak periods, or manage it
when there are intermittent load demands - in the overall
interest of reducing the costs of electricity supply’.
Another definition of DSM, widely accepted by Indian
industry, is that ‘DSM refers to cooperative activities
between the utility and its customers (sometimes with the
assistance of third parties such as energy servicescompanies
and various trade allies) to implement options for
increasing the efficiency of energy utilization, with
resulting benefits to the customer, utility, and society as
whole'. Often the terms energy efficiency and DSM are
used interchangeably. It is important to understand that DSM
(in this report) explicitly refers to all those activities
that involve deliberate intervention by the Electric Utility
in the marketplace so as to alter the consumer's load
shape. Because end use energy efficiency solutions can also
alter consumers’ load shape, all references to DSM in this
report includes potential energy efficiency solutions that
can be effectively delivered with some form of utility
intervention. In fact, the later sections of the report that
discuss Utility DSM potential in India categorize DSM
opportunities into three principal groups, one of which is
energy efficiency. |
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