Coordinated demand-side management (DSM) programs—jointly funded, designed, and implemented by government agencies and electric and gas utilities—are likely to become much more widespread in the future. Because of the comingling of government and private funds in these types of...

We argue that it is more appropriate to compare demand-side management (DSM) programs, rather than DSM technologies, with supply resources in electric utility integrated planning. To accomplish this, DSM technologies must be identified and screened for appropriateness in a given service...