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    Load Response

    Reducing electricity use from the grid during peak periods to increase reliability and moderate the energy-clearing price during system-wide peak demand; reducing electric load or using qualifying emergency generators on the customer side of the meter.

    Load Forecasting

    Planning by utilities to ensure a reliable electricity supply

    Load Following

    Planning by utilities to ensure that electric generators operate as scheduled, based upon load forecasts (also, operating a generator to balance short-term load fluctuations)

    Load Center

    An area (city, etc.) that uses large amounts of electricity (also called a load pocket)

    Load

    Any consumer of electrical energy; also, the amount of power (demand) used by a utility system, electrical device or consumer. Load can be manually or automatically curtailed or shed temporarily during times of high usage (customers have agreed beforehand to such actions) or managed to ensure a reliable electricity supply

    LMP (Locational Marginal Pricing)

    Pricing electricity to include the costs of transmission losses, congestion and the local costs of generation (also called location-based pricing)

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