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University of NSW, School of PV and Renewable Energy Engineering

Tariff Assessment Tool

Financial year
2016
Topic
Pricing and tariffs
Consumer type
Households
Grant amount
$54,200
Jurisdiction
National Electricity Market (NEM)
Status
Completed

Project summary

To develop a tariff testing tool to enable consumer advocates and researchers to investigate how different tariff structures impact on the bills of different types of residential customers, while also estimating alignment with network costs

Tariff Design and Assessment Tool - User Guide (PDF, 748.21KB)

'Designing more cost reflective electricity network tariffs with demand charges', Energy Policy, 109, p642-649

’Electricity network revenue under different Australian residential tariff designs and customer interventions’, IEEE PESGN, July 2016

'An Assessment of the Cost-Reflectivity of Proposed Network Tariffs in Australia’, Asia-Pacific Solar Research Conference 2015, Brisbane, Australia (PDF, 184.29KB)

Dynamic Model Approach to Assess Feed-in Tariffs for Residential PV systems (PDF, 153.03KB)

Workshop on Distribution Network Tariff Assessment and Design (Melbourne)

Workshop: Cost-Reflective Pricing – some different perspectives

Slides - Temporal and spatial variability of distributed PV impacts on Australian distribution network load profiles (PDF, 404.49KB)

 

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