Search Results - subject:"Block tariffs"

Reforming residential electricity tariff in China: Block tariffs pricing approach

Sun, Chuanwang; Lin, Boqiang - In: Energy Policy 60 (2013) C, pp. 741-752

The Chinese households that make up approximately a quarter of world households are facing a residential power tariff reform in which a rising block tariff structure will be implemented, and this tariff mechanism is widely used around the world. The basic principle of the structure is to assign...

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Designation and influence of household increasing block electricity tariffs in China

Lin, Boqiang; Jiang, Zhujun - In: Energy Policy 42 (2012) C, pp. 164-173

increasing block tariffs system with the consideration of residential income and electricity consumption. The result indicates … that the increasing block tariffs system with four-tier structure is more reasonable for China. Although the increasing … block tariffs will result in the increase of electricity price, it is still acceptable and affordable. The increasing block …

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Equity in Domestic Water Rates Design

Barberán, Ramón; Arbués, Fernando - In: Water Resources Management 23 (2009) 10, pp. 2101-2118

Water rates seek at once to fund the service, to distribute the cost among users and to allocate water based on demand. Therefore, rates design is frequently subject to normative criteria such as full cost recovery, efficiency, equity and simplicity. This paper, proposes a method of ensuring the...

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