%0 Report %K electricity markets and policy group %K energy analysis and environmental impacts department %A Charles A Goldman %A G. G Alan Comnes %A John F Busch %A Stephen Wiel %C Berkeley %D 1993 %I LBNL %P 349 %T Primer on Gas Integrated Resource Planning %2 LBNL-34144 %8 12/1993 %X

This report discusses the following topics: gas resource planning: need for IRP; gas integrated resource planning: methods and models; supply and capacity planning for gas utilities; methods for estimating gas avoided costs; economic analysis of gas utility DSM programs: benefit-cost tests; gas DSM technologies and programs; end-use fuel substitution; and financial aspects of gas demand-side management programs.