Rate Structures for Customers With Onsite Generation: Practice and Innovation

Johnston, L. ; Takahashi, K. ; Weston, F. ; Murray, C.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Distributed Generation;    Dg;    Partial-Requirements Customers;    Nrel;    Distributed Energy Resources;   

DOI  :  10.2172/875326
RP-ID  :  NREL/SR-560-39142
RP-ID  :  AC36-99-GO10337
RP-ID  :  875326

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

Recognizing that innovation and good public policy do not always proclaim themselves, Synapse Energy Economics and the Regulatory Assistance Project, under a contract with the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), undertook a survey of state policies on rates for partial-requirements customers with onsite distributed generation. The survey investigated a dozen or so states. These varied in geography and the structures of their electric industries. By reviewing regulatory proceedings, tariffs, publications, and interviews, the researchers identified a number of approaches to standby and associated rates--many promising but some that are perhaps not--that deserve policymakers' attention if they are to promote the deployment of cost-effective DG in their states.