Impact of Alternative Rate Structures on Distributed Solar Customer Electricity Bills

Research output: NRELPresentation

Abstract

Electric utilities are increasingly proposing changes to residential rate structures, in order to address concerns about their inability to recover fixed system costs from customers with grid connected distributed generation. The most common proposals have been to increase fixed charges, set minimum bills or instigate residential demand charges. This presentation provides results of an analysis to explore how these rate design alternatives impact electricity bills for PV and non-PV customers.
Original languageAmerican English
Number of pages23
StatePublished - 2015

Publication series

NamePresented at the 2015 Energy Policy Research Conference, 10-11 September 2015, Denver, Colorado

NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/PR-6A20-64990

Keywords

  • alternative rate design
  • demand charge
  • demand-based rate
  • fixed charge
  • minimum bill
  • residential solar
  • solar customer
  • utility rate structure

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