| Author | Sumaoy, Cecilio U. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. ET-98-27 |
| Subject(s) | Demand-side management (Electric utilities)
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of
Engineering, School of Environment, Resources and Development |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Distribution resource planning in many parts of the world has experienced several
shift in perspective. With the successful competition in the generation sector and with
the start of competition in the retail sale of electricity in some western countries, many
distribution utilities are now bracing themselves for the looming competitive business
environment. With this new environment, a customer-oriented distribution utility which
is able to maintain a reliable and cost-effective distribution system has the bigger chance
to survive. Luckily for distribution utilities, there already exists an integrated resource
planning process which optimally integrates both the supply- and demand-side resources
into the system expansion plan. This planning process is hereby extended to feeder
specific studies for targeted demand-side management (DSM) technologies and small-scale distributed generators (DG) wherein feeder- and time-specific marginal costs
together with the supplier's costs of power constitute the utility's total avoidable costs.
Resource prioritization based on its impact to monetary and non-monetary criteria
(reliability, voltage quality and environmental) is accomplished with analytic hierarchy
process (AHP) approach. Also, under the AHP approach, customer's perception to each
of the given decision criteria is solicited through customer survey.
From the utility's point of view, with a utility-led demand-management program
where the utility shoulders the up-front capital and administrative costs while benefits are
equally shared between the utility and participating customer, idle customer-owned
standby diesel genset appear as a viable alternative source of power for the distribution
system especially when savings due to the reduction of line losses and energy not served
are accounted. The genset together with efficient cooling and lighting technologies
comprises the distribution utility's viable options to meet current and projected demand. |
| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Environment, Resources, and Development (SERD) |
| Department | Department of Energy and Climate Change (Former title: Department of Energy, Environment, and Climate Change (DEECC)) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Energy Technology (ET) |
| Chairperson(s) | Malik, Arif S.; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Surapong Chirarattananon ;Pacudan, Romeo B. ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | Asian Development Bank - Japan Scholarship Program ; |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1998 |