Analysis of an alternate method for assessing fuel charges to electric utility customers

Technical Report · Tue May 04 04:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:5158273

This report is an analysis of one of the ramifications of a proposed bill that reads in part as follows: In computing monthly charges to be passed on to customers resulting from charges in fuel costs, a gas or electric utility, shall compute the charges for residential customers based on the least expensive gas purchases used in that month up to the total amount used by all residential customers during that month and shall compute the charges for all other customers based on the cost of the remaining gas purchases used by the utility in that month. The data necessary for a complete analysis of the ramifications of this bill are not available. However, some of the most recent data available (for Lo Vaca Gathering Company, October, 1975) was used to examine some of the consequences of this bill on the electric customers of the City of Austin (Austin), City Public Service Board of San Antonio (CPS), and Central Power and Light Company (CPL) based in Corpus Christi and serving much of South Texas.

• Research Organization: Texas Governor's Energy Advisory Council, Austin (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5158273
• Report Number(s): NP-4900386; ON: DE84900386
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
296000* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Electric Power
COST
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMICS
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY ANALYSIS
ENERGY POLICY
GAS UTILITIES
GOVERNMENT POLICIES
PRICES
PUBLIC UTILITIES
RATE STRUCTURE