Task 18 – Demand Side Management and Climate Change

Synopsis

The fourth IPCC Working Group III Report “Mitigation of Climate Change” identified demand side management programs as a mechanism that may be effective in reducing emissions.

Task 18 investigated the potential contribution to mitigating GHG emissions that can be made by demand side management measures. Task 18 also examined the extent to which GHG emissions mitigation measures can provide benefits to electricity systems.

Achieved Results

Participation in Task 18 enabled countries and organisations to:

understand the interactions between DSM and climate change
develop methodologies for assessing the GHG emissions reductions available from specific DSM measures
gain information about using DSM programs to mitigate GHG emissions, and about using GHG emission mitigation programs to deliver benefits to electricity systems
identify opportunities for funding DSM programs with revenue from GHG emissions trading schemes
explore whether use time of use pricing can be used to achieve mitigation of GHG emissions
gather the information necessary to launch and participate in deployment programmes for demand-side technologies.