Electric rate analysis for pv/battery energy systems

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7753
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7753(84)87072-x

✦ Synopsis

The objective of this study is to determine how the utility rate system will be affected by increasing penetration of customer-side-of-the-meter photovoltaic/battery systems. ANL will analyze the efficiency and practicability of alternative utility rate designs including time-of-day rates, demand charges, and load management contracts.

The solar/utility interface problem was analyzed within a standard economic representation of the periodic load problem. The basic approach was to use the welfare function formation of traditional peak load pricing theory as the framework for investigating the pricing and welfare implications of the solar/utility interface. In representing the essential features of solar supply technologies, both the periodic and the intermittent nature of the solar output was considered.