Electricity Pricing: Table of Contents

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  • Overview of Electricity Pricing
  • Objectives of the Electric Tariff Traditional Price Regulation
  • Impacts of Industry Restructuring on Electricity Pricing
  • The Role of Engineering in Electricity Pricing
  • Prerequisite Concepts
  • The Cardinal Laws of Electricity
  • Fundamental Load Characteristics
  • Elements of Utility Costs and Pricing
  • Electric End Uses
  • Customer End-Use Needs
  • End-Use Value
  • Customer End-Use Research
  • Customers: Electric Service Requirements
  • Customer Electricity Requirements
  • Nonphysical Service Requirements
  • The Customer as Energy Manager
  • Customer-Owned Power Systems
  • Wholesale and Compound Retail Customers
  • Power Delivery Systems: Transmission and Distribution
  • Power Distribution
  • Power Transmission
  • Electric Power Production
  • Power Production Technologies
  • Classifications of Generation
  • Generation Operation and Control
  • Revenue Metering and Billing
  • Metering of Electrical Energy
  • Metering of Demand
  • Special Metering Considerations
  • Meter Data Acquisition, Processing, and Billing
  • The Rate Schedule: Pricing Methods and Risk
  • Qualifying Service Provisions
  • Rate Structure Forms
  • Attendant Billing Provisions
  • The Mathematics of Rates
  • Graphical Representation of Rates
  • Formulary Representation of Rates
  • Rate Comparison Methods
  • Billing Data Statistics and Applications
  • Characteristics of Billing Data
  • Bill Frequency Analyses
  • Bill Frequency Revenue Analyses
  • Revenue Forecasting Methodologies
  • Cost-of-Service Methodology
  • Cost-of-Service Study Overview
  • Cost Functionalization
  • Cost Classification
  • Cost Assignment
  • Cost-of-Service Study Results
  • Translating Costs to Prices
  • Coincidence Factor Load Factor Relationship
  • Cost Curve Development
  • Rate Design Methodology
  • Guiding Principles of Ratemaking
  • Appendices
  • Bibliography
  • Index