In the development of new tariffs, customer diversity should be taken into account to achieve more efficient demand-side management goals. This means that customers' reactions to rate changes need to be analysed at an individual customer level. We use daily consumption pattern (DCP) models for...

As the trend in electricity markets is strongly towards deregulation, new players, new rules and new behaviors will continue to emerge. One of the new developments on the demand side is purchases made by a coalition of consumers. It seems indeed likely that in the future this will be more...