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A Successful Cool Storage Rate
Abstract
Houston Lighting & Power
(HL&P) initiated design and
development of its commercial
cool storage program as part
of an integrated resource
planning process with a
targeted 225 MW of demand
reduction through DSM.
Houston's extensive commercial
air conditioning load, which
is highly coincident with
HL&P's system peak, provided a
large market for cool storage
technologies. Initial market
research made it very clear
that a special cool storage
rate was required to
successfully market the
technology.
Development of the rate
required an integrated, multidepartment
effort and
extensive use of DSManager, an
integrated resource planning
model. An experimental
version of the rate was
initially implemented as part
of the initial phase of the
cool storage program. A
permanent rate, incorporating
lessons learned from the
experimental rate, was then
developed for the long term
implementation of the program.
The permanent rate went
through a lengthy regulatory
approval process which
included intervention by a
local natural gas distribution
company. The end result is a
very successful cool storage
program with 52 projects and
31 megawatts of demand
reduction in the first three and one-half years of program
implementation.
Citation
Ahrens, A. C.; Sobey, T. M. (1994). A Successful Cool Storage Rate. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu); Texas A&M University (http://www.tamu.edu). Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /6657.