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Customer Cycling Program in the City of Weimar
Abstract
The City of Weimar Conservation/Load
Management (CLM) Program demonstrates to other
small Public Power Systems that a small city electric
distribution system with 1,097 meters serving a
population of less than 2,500 can have an effect on
electric energy usage and conservation. Although the
reduction may be small in KW, the percentages of
participation in the program are not; and neither, is
the percent of reduction of seven percent (7%)
realized by the Cycling Program.
The Weimar Peak Time Intermission Program
was implemented in July, 1986 with the assistance of
the Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative (GVEC).
The number of installed devices rose over the first
six (6) months from 0 to 325 and remained relatively
constant until the City initiated a $2.00 monthly
credit per device in October, 1991. Shortly
thereafter, we installed another thirty (30) devices
and at present have 358 devices installed with the
following breakdown:
Central Air Conditioners 126
Heat Pumps 72
Electric Furnaces 30
Water Heaters 1 3
An outgrowth of the Residential/Small Business
Cycling Program has been the commercial rate for
businesses using more than 50 KW of demand. This
rate is patterned after the LCRA WP-1 Wholesale
Rate and a similar rate developed by GVEC. Under
this rate measurement of both the Coincident Peak
and the Non-coincident Peak is made each month.
The charge per kilowatt of demand at the time (one-hour)
of LCRA Coincident Peak is significantly
higher than off-peak even though there is a seasonal
variation between Summer (June-September) and
Winter (October-May). This rate design gives the
business an economic incentive to reduce or shift
their demand requirements during the monthly
LCRA System Peak. The program is voluntary and
allows the business to make the decision to reduce or
shift demand; and, to select how they wish to reduce
KW demand.
Citation
Parks, F. E. (1994). Customer Cycling Program in the City of Weimar. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6655.