Download or read book Analysis of Marginal Cost Based Rates for Electric Utilities written by Gary L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gathering Information on Costs of Service written by Jan Paul Acton and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) requires that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission collect various data on costs of service from utilities. The exact methodology of collection was left largely up to FERC. In this paper we make some specific recommendations on the way this data collection activity should be arranged. In view of the costs of collecting, storing, and disseminating large amounts of data, we recommend that only demonstratably useful data is collected. Further, FERC should consider sampling techniques in order that unnecessary costs are not imposed on utilities. In addition, the possibility of synchronizing these data collection activities with ordinary rate hearings should not be overlooked. We recommend that careful consideration be given to the need for collecting much of the traditional accounting cost categories. The intent of PURPA in Sec. 115 (a)(2) seems to definitely emphasize the need for economically based marginal costs information. Marginal cost information is difficult to collect in a standardized form and careful analysis of the methodology and accuracy of the collected data will be required. It is this difficulty that makes collection during regulatory hearings attractive as the assumptions behind the cost measurements can be scrutinized. Finally there would seem to be good reason for FERC to consider collecting interchange data that is consistent with the other data so that bulk power rates can also be analysed.
Download or read book Electricity Prices in a Competitive Environment written by United States. Energy Information Administration and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity Prices in a Competitive Environment written by Mary Hutzler and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the events that led to current initiatives to restructure the electric power industry, and the institutional and structural changes that will be required to support the competitive pricing of electricity. Describes the analysis assumptions and methodology. Compares electricity prices under regulation and prices under competition. Discusses the sensitivities of the results to key parameters in the analysis cases. Analyzes the cash flow implications of the new competitive prices for utilities. Extensive charts, tables and graphs.
Download or read book Electricity Marginal Cost Pricing written by Monica Greer and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Packed with case studies and practical real-world examples, Electricity Marginal Cost Pricing Principles allows regulators, engineers and energy economists to choose the pricing model that best fits their individual market. Written by an author with 13 years of practical experience, the book begins with a clear and rigorous explanation of the theory of efficient pricing and how it impacts investor-owned, publicly-owned, and cooperatively-owned utilities using tried and true methods such as multiple-output, functional form, and multiproduct cost models. The author then moves on to include self-contained chapters on applying estimating cost models, including a cubic cost specification and policy implications while supplying actual data and examples to allow regulators, energy economists, and engineers to get a feel for the methods with which efficient prices are derived in today's challenging electricity market. - A guide to cost issues surrounding the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity - Clearly explains cost models which can yield the marginal cost of supplying electricity to end-users - Real-world examples that are practical, meaningful, and easy to understand - Explans the policy implications of each example - Provide suggestions to aid in the formation of the optimal market price
Download or read book Marginal cost of service Analysis written by Eric Hirst and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electricity Pricing Policy written by California Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making the Transition from Unit Marginal Costs to Rates written by National Economic Research Associates and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Energy Utility Rate Setting written by Lowell Alt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to the Retail Rate Setting Process for Regulated Electric and Natural Gas Utilities. This book explains how the traditional rate-setting process is commonly done for energy utilities. This book includes a discussion of revenue requirement, rate base, cost of capital, expenses, revenues, rate-making objectives, cost of service studies, rate design, the rate case process, tariff policies, metering, service quality and other types of cases affecting rates. The book concludes with a numerical example showing the calculation steps from revenue requirement to rate design.
Download or read book Electricity Prices in a Competitive Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emergence of competitive markets for electricity generation services is changing the way that electricity is and will be priced in the United States. This report presents the results of an analysis that focuses on two questions: (1) How are prices for competitive generation services likely to differ from regulated prices if competitive prices are based on marginal costs rather than regulated {open_quotes}cost-of-service{close_quotes} pricing? (2) What impacts will the competitive pricing of generation services (based on marginal costs) have on electricity consumption patterns, production costs, and the financial integrity patterns, production costs, and the financial integrity of electricity suppliers? This study is not intended to be a cost-benefit analysis of wholesale or retail competition, nor does this report include an analysis of the macroeconomic impacts of competitive electricity prices.
Download or read book Electricity Pricing Policies for California written by Jim Devanney and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Innovative Electric Rates written by Sanford V. Berg and published by Free Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pricing by User Class written by James Paul Bell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economic Theory of Marginal Cost Pricing and Its Application by Electric Utilities in France and Great Britain written by Fred M. Westfield and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Report on Electricity Pricing Policies for Ohio written by Daniel Czamanski and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Regulating Power The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age written by Carl Pechman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modem industrial society functions with the expectation that electricity will be available when required. By law, electric utilities have the obligation to provide electricity to customers in a "safe and adequate" manner. In exchange for this obligation, utilities are granted a monopoly right to provide electricity to customers within well-defmed service territories. However, utilities are not unfettered in their monopoly power; public utility commissions regulate the relationship between a utility and its customers and limit profits to a "fair rate of return on invested capital. " From its inception through the late 1970s, the electric utility industry's opera tional paradigm was to continue marketing electricity to customers and to build power plants to meet customer needs. This growth was facilitated by a U. S. energy policy predicated upon the assumption that sustained electric growth was causally linked to social welfare (Lovins, 1977). The electric utility industry is now in transition from a vertically integrated monopoly to a more competitive market. Of the three primary components (generation, transmission, and distribution) of the traditional vertically integrated monopoly, generation is leading this transformation. The desired outcome is a more efficient market for the provision of electric service, ultimately resulting in lower costs to customers. This book focuses on impediments to this transformation. In partiCUlar, it argues that information control is a form of market power that inhibits the evolution of the market. The analysis is presented within the context of the transformation of the U. S.
Download or read book A Framework for Marginal Cost based Time differentiated Pricing in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
