Retail Choice Experiments: Comparing Early-AdopterExperience

Golove, William

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

关键词: 29 Energy Planning, Policy And Economy;    Electricity;    California;    Tariffs Retail Choice Electricity Restructuring Value-Addedservices;    Market;   

DOI  :  10.2172/881381
RP-ID  :  LBNL--55408
RP-ID  :  DE-AC02-05CH11231
RP-ID  :  881381

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

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.