Document: NUREG-1555
Document ID: edddea47-82cf-4080-b446-54a1ee9f97cc
Document Type: esrp
Title: FACTORS AFFECTING GROWTH OF DEMAND
Source: NUREG-1555
Source URL: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1555/initial/
Revision Date: 2007-10
Chapter: 8
Section ID: 8.2.2
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the real price of electricity. (c) Compare these forecasts with the treatment of price in the applicant’s analysis. (2) Consider the effects of price competition and alternative rate structures that would moderate load growth or reshape load curves. (a) Consider alternative rate structures such as peakload pricing, inverted rates, and flattened rates. (b) Analyze the relevant region’s present attempts and future plans to improve the system load factor via rate restructuring (e.g., higher tail rate during peak periods and demand charges that are based on maximum demand). (c) Estimate anticipated effects on annual electricity consumption and peakload demand. (3) Determine to what extent economic and demographic trends, energy efficiency and substitution, open competition, and price and rate structure are likely to affect the rate of growth of electrical demand. This determination should be based on the following information: October 1999 8.2.2-7 NUREG-1555 ` the effect of economic and demographic variables on the expected growth of electricity demand ` the effect of energy efficiency improvements and substitution on projected kWh sales and peak demand ` the effect of price competition and the growth in the real price of electricity on the expected growth of electricity demand ` the capability of present and proposed rate structures to promote load management. (4) Ensure that the data and analyses submitted by the applicant are accurate and in sufficient detail to allow one to conclude that the forecast submitted by the applicant properly reflects the factors listed above. (a) If the reviewer concludes that the applicant has taken reasonable account of these factors in its forecast, the reviewer can endorse the applicant’s forecast. (b) If the reviewer determines by analysis that adequate consideration has not been given to the factors listed above, see ESRP 8.2.1 to develop an independent range of electricity-demand growth to determine if the differences in the