For example, rather than purchase expensive ultra-efficient motors, low cost opportunistic additions to old fans and pumps such as variable frequency drives anddemand controls can deliver equal energy savings at a fraction of the cost.
As more enterprises shut down their in-house data centers and turn to on-demand storage and computing services delivered via the Internet, their storage needs become more variableand less predictable.
The report said the demand for broadband among deep rural residents was not being met and that many continued to experience variable mobile phone reception.
Using price to manage demand is a well-studied discipline in the airline and railway industries, where individual seats may be priced differently to manage variabledemand into fixed capacity.
Of course, more distributed generators contributing variable renewable energy to the grid means an increasing challenge to regulate the consistency of supply anddemand.