This paper aims to interpret Demand-Side Management (DSM) activity and to point out its problems, adopting micro economics as an analytical tool. Two major findings follow. First, the cost-benefit analysis currently in use has the following problems: (i) inconsistency in cost comparison between utility costs on the supply-side and utility costs plus customer costs on the demand-side, (ii) incon...

Government, utility, and private subsidies for energy efficiency play a prominent role in current efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yet the effectiveness of this policy approach is in dispute. One opportunity for empirical analysis is provided by the past energy efficiency subsidies, called demand-side management programs, offered by electric utilities in North America over several de...

The increase in electricity demand has exerted pressure on distribution networks to provide efficient and reliable services. In addition to this, the deployment of Distributed energy resources (DERs) is increasing vastly. Thus, new strategies for congestion management are required to cope with these new changes. This paper, proposes an algorithm to optimize the total operational cost of Distrib...