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Retail Choice Experiments: Comparing Early-AdopterExperience

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/881381· OSTI ID:881381
This paper reviews the experience with retail choice of non-residential electricity customers during the period from early 1998 through the first few months of 2000. Key findings include: (1) customers in California received a significantly smaller discount from utility tariffs than customers in other competitive markets; (2) this sample of large commercial/industrial customers believed they were benefiting significantly more from commodity savings from contracts with retail electricity service providers (RESP) than from value-added services; and,(3) market rules appear to be critical to customer experiences with retail competition, yet the relationship between market rules and market development is inadequately understood.
Research Organization:
Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley NationalLaboratory, Berkeley, CA (US)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE. Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency andRenewable Energy. Office of Biopower and Hydropower Technologies. Officeof Power Technologies
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-05CH11231
OSTI ID:
881381
Report Number(s):
LBNL--55408; BnR: EL1702010
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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