District heating companies are facing multiple challenges nowadays, including increased investment and maintenance cost and critique from customers regarding opaque price model. Hence there is an urgent need to develop new price models. In this paper, a survey was carried out and identified four basic components in the price model. Three price models that represent the current situation and future trend have been extracted from the survey as well. Based on those price models, investigation was performed to study the impacts of different components in price models on customers’ cost. The result shows that customers with flatter consumption profiles can benefit from the price model that has a higher share of load demand component and use consumers’ real-time consumption data for charging. On the contrary, when a price model that has a higher share of energy component is adopted, customers with flatter consumption profiles may experience an increase in the cost.
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