Renegotiating the Social Contract: The 'Demand-Side Management Revolution' and the Restructuring of the American Electric Utility Industry, l978-l992

重新谈判社会契约：“需求侧管理革命”和美国电力行业的重组，l978-l992

• 批准号: 9223727
• 负责人: Richard Hirsh
• 金额: $ 8万
• 依托单位: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-06-01 至 1996-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9223727&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renegotiating; Social; Contract; Demand; Side

Dr. Hirsh is examining the creation of a new consensus emerging between electric utilities and consumers that results in increased energy efficiency, lower customer costs, greater corporate profits, and enhanced environmental quality. In contrast to the acrimonious relationship between utilities and customers that existed in the 1970's, the new "social contract" has at its core the increasing sophistication of so-called "demand-side management" (DSM) technologies. A catch-all phrase that subsumes conservation measures and high-efficiency, end-use technologies, demand-side management curbs customer requirements for electricity and reduces the need for utilities to construct power plants, with all the attendant environmental savings. In a novel fashion that promises universal rewards, activist groups, utilities, and other players in the late 1980's seized upon DSM technologies to reach a new consensus. Dr. Hirsh's study is focusing on technological, regulatory, political, and managerial events that have coalesced to create a new social contract within the utility community. Employing oral history and documentary sources, his work extends research that deals with the restructuring of the utility industry that resulted from technological and regulatory innovations in the 1970's and 1980's. Dr. Hirsh's goal is to interpret the utility industry's transformation since the 1970's as the result of a process in which various players negotiated their contractual roles and responsibilities. The study promises to become not just a history of these events but a useful planning tool for policy makers and utility managers.

赫什博士正在研究一种新的共识的产生 电力公司和消费者之间，导致增加 能源效率、更低的客户成本、更高的企业利润， 提高了环境质量。 与那些尖刻的 存在的公用事业和客户之间的关系， 20世纪70年代，新的“社会契约”的核心是越来越多的 所谓“需求侧管理”的复杂性 技术. 一个包含保护的总括性短语 措施和高效率、最终用途技术、需求方 管理层限制客户对电力的要求， 电力公司需要建造发电厂， 节约环境成本。 以一种新颖的方式， 普遍奖励，活动家团体，公用事业公司和其他参与者， 20世纪80年代末，人们抓住DSM技术， 共识 赫什博士的研究重点是技术，监管， 政治和管理事件，共同创造了一个 新的社会契约在公用事业社区。 使用口腔 历史和文献资料，他的工作扩展了研究， 处理公用事业行业的重组， 从20世纪70年代的技术和监管创新， 1980年代。 赫什博士的目标是解释公用事业行业的 自20世纪70年代以来，由于一个过程， 不同的参与者谈判他们的合同角色， 责任 这项研究有望成为不仅仅是一个历史 这些活动的一个有用的规划工具， 公用事业经理。