domingo, mayo 29, 2005

World Bank on Demand Response: Please Read Italics

Energy Week 2005 took place in Washington, DC on March 14-16, 2005. It featured presentations and discussions with leading energy development practitioners and offered networking activities to participants from Governments, NGOs, consultants and World Bank Group staff.

The theme of Energy Week 2005 was Our Energy Future - ensuring affordable and reliable supplies of energy for the 21st century in developing countries is a prerequisite for economic development and poverty reduction. The program featured plenary and breakout sessions addressing the key developments that are shaping the future of energy supply and the kinds of energy services which will be available in developing countries in the future.

DAY 2 Morning Tuesday, March 15
11:00 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS
Innovative DSM tools to help bridge the supply-demand investment gap -- Luiz Maurer,
World Bank (Moderator). Susan Covino, PJM Interconnection; Ahmad Faruqui, Charles River Associates; and Grayson Heffner, World Bank -- Recent power shortages and blackouts around the world have created renewed interest in using the demand side of electricity markets to avoid or ameliorate such crises. New approaches to demand response involving price and quantity rationing have been proposed and successfully tested in several developed countries. Unfortunately, the Bank's client countries are not fully harnessing the potential of demand response to make their power systems more reliable and to provide affordable electricity. This panel will share some of those experiences and will discuss how developing countries can potentially benefit from innovative demand-side management techniques.

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