Download or read book Long term Effects of Conservation Rates written by Vista Consulting Group and published by American Water Works Association. This book was released on 1997 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 is the Introduction. Chapter 2 addresses particular conservation pricing strategies and the relationship between rate design and conservation. It is not only the size of the price change that determines the demand response but also the rate structure implemented. Inverted rate, summer seasonal rate and summer/winter differential rate structures are discussed in this chapter. Chapter 3 of the report is a practical guide and discussion of the price elasticity of water demand. The chapter provides an overview of what has been learned thus far about demand responses to price changes under varying circumstances, assumptions, and pricing strategies based on the experience of hundreds of water utilities. The chapter focuses on what utility managers should learn from the results of these studies so they can apply these results to their conservation pricing efforts. Chapter 4 is a special treatment of the long-term impacts of conservation pricing. It is much more difficult to estimate long-run price elasticities because numerous other factors that impact water demand over the long term have to be accounted for. Studies on long-term impacts have been much less reliable and have often contradicted each other. The chapter addresses various aspects that are known about long-run impacts of conservation pricing, including the difference between behavioral versus structural responses to price changes and how such a difference determines the differences between short- and long-run demand impacts and between the responses of the various customer classes.
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