TIME OF USE PRICING FOR LOAD MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS IN EGYPTIAN ELECTRICITY HOLDING COMPANY

 للكاتبين :

* Kamel A. Shoush, ** Ahmed S. Ahmed

* Al-Azhar University, Faculty Of Engineering , Nasr City – Cairo – Egypt

** Petroleum pipeline Co. Cairo –Egypt. P.O.B. 1104 Cairo, Egypt

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Abstract

Load management (LM) means the strategies implemented by the electric power utility to

systematically affect the utilization time and amount of electric energy by the customers. The

potential of LM programs to reduce the system peak depends on the customers willingness

and capability to alter the end use activities such as the time of day to operate the electric

appliances. The LM programs will change the load pattern of customers by decrease load

demand during peak period and/or increase load demand during off-peak period. The

expected benefit of LM is the reduction of power system operation cost and the postponement

of constructing new generation units.

Time of use (TOU) pricing can either be applied as a LM program or as an incentive to drive

the economics and the motivation to implement other types of LM programs. TOU pricing

also can be taken as an involuntary way for consumers to adjust the electricity consumption

among different time axis in accordance with the cost of electricity.

This paper introduce two modules for TOU rate structure, each one can differentiate among

different time periods, despite of long peak period, that must be reduced it, to encourage the

using of load management (TOU).

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