A Cost-Based Approach to Elicit Ancillary Service Tariffs from Unified Capacity and Energy Tariffs

Cost-Causation-Based Tariffs for Wind Ancillary Service Impacts

As the use of wind energy increases in the United States, there has been significant interest in assessing the integration cost of wind. With higher penetration, these costs have been shown to increase, but are generally modest relative to the price of wind energy. Although specific tariffs for wind generation for ancillary services are uncommon, we anticipate that balancing authorities (contro...

Comparison of Internet Service Tariffs

In this paper, we study the pricing of Internet services under monopoly and duopoly environments using a game-theoretic model in which a service provider and users all try to maximize their payoffs. First, we compare a few popular pricing schemes, including flat, volume-based, two-part and nonlinear tariffs with respect to revenue, social welfare and user surplus. We perform a sensitivity study...

Power-based Tariffs Boosting Customer-side Energy Storages

This paper considers how power-based distribution tariffs encourage electricity end-users to invest in energy storages to reduce their peak loads. The study uses actual automatic meter reading (AMR) data from 30 000 customers the annual electricity consumption of which is less than 50 MWh. The customers locate in the area of a Finnish distribution system operator (DSO) operating in an urban env...

Embodied Carbon Tariffs

Embodied carbon tariffs tax the direct and indirect carbon emissions embodied in trade — an idea popularized by countries seeking to extend the reach of domestic carbon regulations. We investigate their effectiveness using simulations from an applied general equilibrium model of global trade and energy use. We find that the tariffs do reduce foreign emissions, but their ability to improve the g...

Best Practice Tariffs