Energy
conservation in utilities has played a vital role in improving energy
efficiency in the industrial, commercial and residential sectors. The
electrical energy consumption in Palestine has increased sharply in the
past few years and achieved by the end of 2001 to 10% per year. It is
expected that this percentage will increase to about 12% if the current
political situation will end hopefully with peace. Modern energy
efficient technologies are needed for the national energy policy. Such
technologies are investigated in this paper. Implementing of a national 3
years project aiming at energy efficiency improvement in residential
and industrial sectors as well as in public utilities, which include
wide range of diversified audits and power measurements, had led to
creating this paper. Measurement and audit results had shown that the
total conservation potential in these sectors is around 15% of the total
energy consumption. The associated costs of the investment in this
field are relatively low and correspond to a pay back period varying in
the range from 6 to 36 months. Consequently, the energy conservation
policy will be seriously improved in the forthcoming years. It is
estimated that 10% of the new energy purchasing capacity will be reduced
accordingly.