For 2,000 Utilities in US, Conservation Efforts Pay
David C. Walters, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
FOR the nation's electric utilities, conservation is no longer a dirty word. While they still prefer to call it "demand-side management," power companies from California to Maine have embraced conservation as profitable and environmentally sound.
"It is one-half as expensive to buy a 'negawatt' {eliminating demand for a watt of power} as it is to buy new generating capacity," says Paul Ward, a spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric Company, based in San Francisco.
In 1991, PG&E convinced more than 500,000 residential customers, 20,000 commercial, 10,000 agricultural, and 1,200 industrial users to implement various aspects of its demand-side management program. The …
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Article title: For 2,000 Utilities in US, Conservation Efforts Pay.
Contributors: David C. Walters, writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: May 14, 1992.
Page number: 3.
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