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When the supply of electricity is constrained and prices rise, both utilities and their customers have an incentive to reduce the amount of electricity being consumed.
Energy conservation — also called load reduction — benefits utilities because they can avoid or postpone the construction of new generating plants, and energy consumers benefit through avoided energy costs.
Reducing electrical load can be accomplished by improving the efficiency of end-use equipment and devices, or by switching an electrical load to an alternative energy source — heating water or building interiors with heat from the earth or sun, for example.
See the following links for information on commercially available technologies for reducing electricity consumption:
DOE's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy provides links to hundreds of documents relating to load reduction.
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