Charge Without a Cause? Assessing Electric Utility Demand Charges on Small Consumers, Electricity Rate Design Review Paper No. 1

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Solar Energy Industries Association

Authors:

Paul Chernick

John T. Colgan

Rick Gilliam

Douglas Jester

Mark LeBel

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Charge Without a Cause? Assessing Electric Utility Demand Charges on Small Consumers, Electricity Rate Design Review Paper No. 1

The goal of this document is to unpack the key elements of demand charges and explore their effect on fairness, efficiency, customer acceptability and the certainty of utility cost recovery.