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| Boisvert, Richard N.; Bills, Nelson L.; Middagh, Mark C.; Schenkel, Mark. |
| Electric utilities throughout the Nation are experimenting with strategies to reduce total electricity consumption or to alter the timing of electrical power use by their customers. This report focuses on one such strategy, time-of-use (TaU) electric rates, and the likely effect of this pricing option on the New York dairy sector. The purpose of the study is to assess the change in farm electrical energy costs when power is sold to dairymen at higher rates for periods of peak power demand and at substantially lower rates for off-peak periods. This study is based on the results derived from a farm-level, computer decision model which calculates farm energy consumption by major end uses--such as milk cooling and feeding--and by time of day. The model... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1992 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123083 |
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| Middagh, Mark C.. |
| This paper examines the cost of electric power consumption on New York dairy farms. More specifically, it is a preliminary evaluation of the cost changes that dairy farmers may experience when residential time-of-use electricity rates are implemented by New York State utilities. Using a model developed for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, the operating cost of farm electrical equipment is estimated using both flat rate pricing and NMPC's new time-of-use rates, which are now being implemented for their farm and residential customers. Twenty-five "typical" family-operated dairy farms are evaluated with this model. Initial results indicate a cost decrease up to 10 percent as a result of the switch to time-of-use rates. Larger farms will experience a greater... |
| Tipo: Working Paper |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1991 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/121481 |
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