Managing the demand for electricity has historically been a challenging strategy, and this is underscored by our estimation of the size of the DR gap in Georgia. Financing, business and policy innovations as well as infrastructure modernization could enable the expansion of demand response.
FERC (2019) estimates that the U.S. could reduce its peak demand by 31.5 GW using retail demand response programs in 2017. In comparison, only 12.2 GW of demand response was called and saved in 2017 (FERC, 2019).
The average Georgia household uses approximately 7 kW of maximum demand. The average annual reduction in peak demand for a single-family household under Georgia Power programs is 0.43 kW per participant. Nationally, the range is 0.6–1.2 kW per participant (Gagnon et al., 2017), placing Georgia on the low-end of demand savings per participant.
During these periods of peak demand, electricity from single-cycle diesel, oil, and natural gas turbines are added to the generation mix. These dispatch curves suggest that implementing demand response during peak summer hours would cause the displacement of expensive and polluting generation.
2022 IRP programs Georgia Power continues to implement the programs approved in the 2022 IRP and is in the process of procuring new renewable energy through requests for proposal
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