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Article #134Re: Outsider viewpoint of CA power crisis
From: Jeffrey Siegal
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:11
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 18:11
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Mike Blackford wrote: > I'll assume that the "customer service component" is predominantly > metering and billing. While I agree, it seems to me that this merely > argues for a rate structure that reflects a basic service charge that's > not volume-sensitive (but may be based on rated capacity) combined with > a consumption charge that's the same for all customers. It certainly might, but that doesn't exist in California. Everything is built into the energy charge. So the energy charge for residential customers has to be a lot higher than industrial. Also, there are distribution costs (energy losses) which are a lot higher for residences, because there are more stages of transformers and lines; industrial users get high voltage feeds, not stepped-down drop lines.
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