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income customers.
Low Income Customers:
- Dynamic Pricing and Low-Income Customers - Public Utilities Fortnightly 2010-11 - by Lisa Wood of the
Edison Foundation's
Institute for Electric Efficiency and Ahmad Faruqui of
Brattle - correcting misconceptions
about load-management programs -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Pricing/Dynamic-Pricing-Low-Income.pdf
- The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing - by Ahmad Faruqui, Ph.D;
Principal; The Brattle Group - With a modest amount of demand response, 92
percent of low income customers would gain from dynamic pricing.
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Pricing/Ethics-Dynamic-Pricing.pdf
- The Impact of Dynamic-Pricing-On-Low-Income-Customers -
Customers -
Metering - Reports &
Papers -
Regulators - Pricing -
2010-06 - This paper provides new information about how low income customers
respond to dynamic prices. It draws upon results from three recent dynamic
pricing programs in Connecticut, the District of Columbia, and Maryland:
Connecticut Light & Power’s (CL&P’s) Plan-it Wise Energy Pilot (PWEP),
Pepco’s PowerCentsDC Program (Pepco DC), and Baltimore Gas & Electric’s
Smart Energy Pricing Pilot (BGE 2008). It also presents early results from a
full scale program that is being rolled out by Pacific Gas & Electric
Company (PG&E) in California, the SmartRate Tariff. For completeness,
results are also summarized from California’s widely cited Statewide Pricing
Pilot (SPP), even though it was conducted over five years ago during the
period from 2003 to 2005, as well as simulation results -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Customers/Impact-Dynamic-Pricing.pdf
- Low Income Reality Check - 5 pages - In the November 2010
Fortnightly article “Dynamic Pricing and Low-Income Customers” by Lisa Wood
and Ahmad Faruqui (the “Wood/Faruqui article”), the authors conclude that
low-income customers have much to gain from dynamic pricing.1 Given the
challenge of transitioning low-income consumers into dynamic pricing, the
support for this conclusion deserves full evaluation -
http://www.EnergyCollection.us/Energy-Regulators/Low-Income-Reality.pdf