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Are Standby Rates Ever Justified? The Case Against Electric Utility Standby Charges as a Response to On-Site Generation

✍ Scribed by Sean Casten

Book ID: 104373948
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 237 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 1040-6190
DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6190(03)00047-2

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✦ Synopsis

Are Standby Rates Ever Justified? The Case Against Electric Utility Standby Charges as a Response to On-Site Generation Standby rates are not only unnecessary, but actually stand in direct opposition to the public interest. To allow utilities to apply standby rates to distributed generators is economically beneficial to the utility in question, but economically disadvantageous to society as a whole.