The impact of AMI-enabled conservation voltage reduction on energy consumption and peak demand

Conservation voltage reduction reduces energy consumption and peak demand by lowering the voltage at which power is delivered to customers, without any loss of comfort to customers. CVR has been around for a long time but the inability to verify the drop in voltage at the customer's premise has prevented its wide-scale implementation. The adoption of advanced metering infrastructure, now deployed in half the country, finally is making feasible the rapid deployment of CVR.