Aligning retail rates with market prices: Pricing initiatives for the transition

Aligning retail rates with market prices: Pricing initiatives for the transition

Conventional retail rates often send both marginal and relative price signals that are out of line with market prices, substantially increasing utility stranded cost exposure. Market-based pricing initiatives, properly structured and targeted, can align rates more closely with market prices and redu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Electricity Journal 1997-06, Vol.10 (5), p.61-67
Hauptverfasser: Phillips, Bruce A., Fisher, Neil S.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
COMPETITION
Cost shifting
Customer services
DEREGULATION
Design
Electric industries
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY
Electric rates
Electric utilities
Electricity
ENERGY PLANNING AND POLICY
MARGINAL-COST PRICING
Market prices
Power marketers
PRICING REGULATIONS
Regulation
RETAIL PRICES
Stranded investment
Tariffs
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Zusammenfassung:Conventional retail rates often send both marginal and relative price signals that are out of line with market prices, substantially increasing utility stranded cost exposure. Market-based pricing initiatives, properly structured and targeted, can align rates more closely with market prices and reduce stranded cost exposure.
ISSN:1040-6190
1873-6874
DOI:10.1016/S1040-6190(97)80530-1