The current legislation requires electric utilities to reduce their overall electricity load by 1 percent by 2011 and by 3 percent by 2013, and reduce peak demand by 4.5 percent by 2013.

The industry's own appliance selling effort was not dictated purely by its retailing interests, but was biased towards winning that part of the domestic electricity load which most helped them to increase electricity sales while minimising costs overall.

The Long Island Power Authority has estimated that building a new Connecticut-Shoreham cable would cost $1 billion and raise complex issues of how to manage electricity loads.

If you're trying to decide whether to invest in a more energy-efficient appliance or you'd like to determine your electricity loads, you may want to estimate appliance energy consumption.

DSDR is one of the new smart grid technologies enabling utility companies to manage their electricity load by turning the distribution grid into a virtual generation facility providing additional megawatts through increase in network efficiency.

If your site has a peak electricity load above 100 kilowatts (and is therefore a 'code 5' site) it will already have half-hourly primary meters installed which record energy consumption every half an hour.

Under the program, about 2 percent of the city's customer base and electricity load now comes from wind power, purchased from wind farms in Wyoming through a nonprofit power authority.

However because of the boundary effects of the EU ETS these small scale CHP units will actually increase global emissions (even if they meet a local heat and electricity load more efficiently).

A multidisciplinary mix of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory is working to help develop a "smart grid" that will not only adapt in real-time to handle larger electricity loads, but also operate more cheaply and efficiently than the existing grid.

Argonne helps the grid get smart Argonne scientists work to help develop a "smart grid" that will not only adapt in real-time to handle larger electricity loads, but also operate more cheaply and efficiently than the existing grid.