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Appendix B: Measure of Economic Growth and of Electricity Demand
Appendix B: Measure of Economic Growth and of Electricity Demand
Pages 135-142
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As discussed elsewhere in the report, a few of the nation's larger Futilities are making major expenditures to increase the effective delivery of electric services to their customers without increasing either installed capacity or energy consumption as usually measured. The expenditures are for conservation and load management technologies, rather than for new power plants.
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We make this distinction because the vast majority of analyses that relate electricity consumption and economic growth focus on kilowatt hours. These studies do not consider the availability and cost issues of having sufficient capacity to meet demand in the sense that utilities define it.
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1983 Electric Power Annual Report shows that from 1979 to 1983 the average growth per year for summer peak demand in the United States was 2.9 percent per year and for winter peak demand 2.7 percent per year, while the average growth in electricity use per year during the same period wars only 1. 0 percent per year .
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2.9 2.7 1.0 aSee Figure B-1 for explanation of region acronyms. SOURCE: Edison Electric Institute, 1983 Electric Power Annual Report, pp .
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(The predicted value is 61.7 percent for 1-984 to 1993 from 1983 Electric Power Annual Report, p. 24; the predicted value is 61.8 percent for 1984 from the EEI Statistical Yearbook.
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SOURCE: Edison Electric Institute, 1983 Electric Power Annual Report, pp. 20-24 (data f rom National Electricity Reliabi lity Counc ill .
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