Reduced Tariffs of Net Energy Metering: More Competitive Retail Rates of Electric Utilities Come Next?

Dyna Ty and John Bergstrom

No 235797, 2016 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Boston, Massachusetts from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: This study seeks to analyze competitiveness in electric rates in the U.S. residential sector under a market-based solar sharing network platform and/or a market-based energy trading platform. We argue that under the solar sharing or trading platform there plausibly exist social welfare gains from economics of distributed generation (DG) of renewable energy among grid-connected, photovoltaic (PV) system households. Thus, in this work, we consider a theoretical analysis framework using a model where grid-connected PV-system households are both simultaneously consumers and producers of electricity.

Keywords: Demand and Price Analysis; Industrial Organization; Production Economics; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 2
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.235797

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