Electric Utility Rate Design Study: Ebasco's responses to major costing issues raised by Task Force Four in its critique of the VEPCO analysis
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:6485098
This report contains Ebasco's responses to major costing issues raised by the EPRI Task Force No. 4 in its critique of their Virginia Electric Power Co. studies. It concisely describes existing major utility rate issues such as selection of rating periods; loss of load probability (LOLP--its application and limitations); Ebasco's base, intermediate and peak (BIP) method; and the zero-intercept method and several other important topics. The report is in simple question and answer form, the answer to Question No. 1 describing Ebasco's pragmatic approach to marginal-cost-based pricing. The response further explains Ebasco's reasons for deviating from an approach that would reflect the classic definition of marginal costing.
- Research Organization:
- Ebasco Services, Inc., New York (USA); Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6485098
- Report Number(s):
- NP-22569
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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