Retail wheeling and discriminatory electric rates
Journal Article
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· Fortnightly
OSTI ID:68471
Retail wheeling has been repeatedly condemned by opponents who claim that it would cause rate discrimination between customer classes. They allege that it would unfairly reduce rates for large customers, while raising them for small ones. But discriminatory rate structures already result from the selective discounts that utilities grant their large customers. Ironically, the easiest way to eliminate this discrimination is to make retail wheeling available to all customers. Traditional cost-of-service ratemaking structures rates to avoid discrimination between customer classes. Regulators determine a utility`s total revenue requirement and then allocate it across customer classes according to the costs of serving the various classes. The resulting rate structure is nondiscriminatory in that rate differentials between classes of services are tied to cost differentials.
- OSTI ID:
- 68471
- Journal Information:
- Fortnightly, Journal Name: Fortnightly Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 133; ISSN FRTNE8
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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