Electric Utility Rate Design Study: critical issues in costing approaches for time-differentiated rates
This report focuses on selected critical issues of costing for time-differentiated rates, with emphasis on the application of alternative costing approaches by Ebasco Services, Inc. and National Economic Research Associates, Inc. It is an expansion and a conclusion of Task Force No. 4's first report entitled: Comments on Two Costing Approaches for Time Differentiated Rates, March 8, 1977. The chapters in this report are: Juxtaposition of Fully Allocated Cost of Service and Incremental Cost Approaches; Economic Theory; Marginal Running Costs--(1) General and (2) Determination and Qualification; Maintenance Schedule Impact Upon Marginal Running Costs; Types of Capacity Capacity for Development of Marginal Generation Capital Costs; Use of LOLP in Determination of Rating Periods and Demand Cost Allocation; Effect of Power and Pool Participation on Marginal Costing; Costing of Hydroelectric Generation Resources; Costing of Interruptible Power; Ebasco's Embedded Cost Methods; Distribution Costs--General; Distribution Costs and Rated Period; Costing of Customer-Related Facilities; Determination of Customer-Related Plant Investment by the Aggregate Zero Intercept Method; Carrying Charges; Refining Revenue Requirements for Rural Electric Cooperatives; Comparison of NERA's and Ebasco's Cost-of-Service Studies for Virginia Electric Power Company; and A Ratemaker's Guide to Linear Programming. (MCW)
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, Calif. (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 6867984
- Report Number(s):
- NP-22557
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ENERGY SOURCES
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