Enhancing the Power Delivery Infrastructure to Support Expanded Energy Efficiency Initiatives

The objectives of this paper are to examine the benefits of electric end-use energy efficiency as well as the potential cost to enhancing the current electric distribution system, to examine the quantifiable impact of electric end-use energy efficiency as an energy resource, to suggest critical technological advances that must be made to the current electric distribution system to enable greater use of electric end-use energy efficiency, and to summarize a proposed technology R&D initiative.Copyright © 2007 by ASME