Energy Utility Rate Setting

A Practical Guide to the Retail Rate Setting Process for Regulated Electric and Natural Gas Utilities. This book explains how the traditional rate-setting process is commonly done for energy utilities. This book includes a discussion of revenue requirement rate base cost of capital expenses. revenues rate-making objectives cost of service studies rate design the rate case process tariff policies metering service quality and other types of cases affecting rates. The book concludes with a numerical example showing the calculation steps from revenue requirement to rate design.