In this paper, the beneficial effects of IHD deployments on the society were investigated, which is one of the enabling technologies related to the AMI investments. By focusing on the energy use reduction due to the feedback information from IHD, various favorable effects can be induced and quantified. The societal benefits should make a reasonable contribution to ensure that IHD should be prerequisite to the AMI deployments. In future, the quantification methodology would be applied to characterize and estimate the time-varying rate based demand response programs.