Electric Utility Rate Design Study: analysis of electricity pricing in France and Great Britain, Topic 1. 2

Technical Report · Tue Jan 25 04:00:00 EST 1977

OSTI ID:5195208

The purpose of the report is to present a description and review of electricity pricing in Britian and France. It describes the actual tariffs, their purported effects on electricity load, and the theoretical methodologies that lie behind them. In both countries, the conceptual basis of seasonal and time-differentiated prices is marginal-cost pricing. The underlying theoretical methodologies provide important guidance for actual tariff construction, though they differ slightly between the two countries. Both countries view their tariff structures as promoting substantial and concrete benefits. France believes the peak-load pricing structure for industrial consumers leveled the load; Britain leveled its load through half-priced off-peak rates as an incentive to nightime use of electric heaters.

• Research Organization: National Economic Research Associates, New York (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, Calif. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5195208
• Report Number(s): NP-22508
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
296000* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Electric Power
CHARGES
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ECONOMIC IMPACT
ELECTRIC POWER
EUROPE
FINANCIAL INCENTIVES
FRANCE
LOAD MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
MARGINAL-COST PRICING
OFF-PEAK POWER
PEAK-LOAD PRICING
POWER
RATE STRUCTURE
REVIEWS
TAXES
UNITED KINGDOM