Abstract
Perhaps the greatest challenge to electric utilities is the design and implementation of demand side management (DSM) programs targeted to their industrial customers. In focussing on promotion of high efficiency lighting systems, electric motors and variable speed drives utilities have offered solutions, and have committed their resources to finding the corresponding problems. These types of programs have had varying degrees of success, but often fail to identify industrial DSM opportunities having a much greater impact: process-related DSM.
This paper describes some of the less conventional, but commonly encountered, process-related industrial DSM and energy conservation opportunities that Chem Systems has identified in work carried out for electric utilities.
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