Principals for pricing the electricity transport service, what incentives shall grid tariffs give

摘要

This article describes how the grid company should set the tariffs in an optimal way. The targets are to give incentives to consumers and producers to optimal location and in that way minimize the grid companies' costs and maximizing the grid companies' profit. The grid is dimensioned from the balance between investments, maintenance, losses, interruption costs, and bottleneck costs. How should these costs be reflected in the tariffs?