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| Schenkel, Mark; Boisvert, Richard N.. |
| Recent concern among New York dairy farmers has grown regarding potential increases in energy costs as upstate utilities, under mandate from the New York Public Service Commission, move to time-of-use electricity rates. Furthermore, since it is often desirable to maintain relatively fixed intervals between daily milkings, farmers have expressed further concern about their ability to shift electricity consumption from expensive peak period hours to relatively inexpensive off-peak hours. To determine the effects of time-of-use electricity rates on New York dairy farms and to gain a better understanding of methods farmers can adopt to save energy, an empirical model estimating the time-of-day demand for electricity is developed. The parameters from this model... |
| Tipo: Technical Report |
Palavras-chave: Livestock Production/Industries; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/123007 |
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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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