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ENERGY CONSERVATION
 INTRODUCTION
1. What is load shedding?
2. Effects of load shedding on
Rural life
3. Economic effect of load
shedding
4. 3 different effects of load-
shedding
5. How can load shedding be
solved?
1.What is load shedding?
Load shedding was implemented to save money. It
also saves pollution.
Load shedding is what electric utilities do when there is a
huge demand for electricity that exceeds the generation
available. The alternative is to have a brown-out where
the voltage is reduced.
It costs a lot to have generators standing by just in case
there is a surge of demand, and the operators of those
generators expect to be paid whether they run the
generators or not. An alternative is if there is a large
consumer of electricity (say, a factory) that could
suddenly turn off all its electricity demand, they could
agree to do that on request, and it has the same benefit as
adding that amount of generation to the electric grid.
 That factory has losses from shutting down its
equipment and idling its workers, but if the money it
gets paid is enough, then it's worth it. This is a
perfect example of load shedding.
There are many other cases where lots of smaller
consumers agree to reduce demand on hot summer
days, such as by reducing air conditioning or lighting.
Pollution can be reduced by load-shedding as well.
Often, the generators that you run as a last resort are
the least efficient and most polluting. If you don't
need to run those because you saved energy
elsewhere for the few hours of highest power
demand, we all win.
2.Effects of load shedding on rural
life
Load shedding, or temporarily denying electric
power to an area. The effects are bad everywhere, I
presume, for we are so used to using electricity to
run our homes (lights, fans, A/C's, computers) and
our offices, and our industries. People in the rural
areas need electricity just as much as people in the
urban areas do.
3. Economic effect of load shedding
1. Industries can't run properly.

2. More the electricity the more is the income for the

country

3. electricity is the most but abundant energy which

has to be conserved.
4. What are the 3 different effects of
load-shedding?
1. Valuable power-generation equipment is protected from being
damaged by excess power demand or "distribution network
overload" conditions.
2. social-priority customers - such as hospitals, defense, police,
national communications services and vital manufacturing plants -
can continue to be supplied with power even though non-priority
customers - such as normal domestic homes, offices and shops - may
have to be subjected to power outages during a period of load-
shedding
3. when part of a distribution network has to be de-commissioned
for repairs or upgrades, load-shedding must first be done to remove
all consumers from that part of the network to prevent them from
drawing any further power until the network has been re-
commissioned into use
5. How can load shedding be
solved?
You can use less electricity!
E.g.
1. switch off lights, radios, televisions, computers
etc. that you are not using
2. use non electrical things in place of electrical
appliances e.g. gas stoves etc.
3. use energy-saving appliances e.g. energy-saving
light bulbs, etc.
REFERENCE-
1. ENERGY CONSERVATION AND AUDIT
2. WIKIPEDIA

GUIDED BY:-

M.S.DESHPANDE

G.B.TIDKE