Description
This slide presentation outlines conservation pricing impacts on revenues and customers. Topics outlined include: impact of price on your customer; price elasticity concepts; price elasticity applied; water utility cost structure; rate design; goals for conservation savings; and, characteristics of conservation rate designs. A case study is presented of the Tualatin Valley Water District rate study. Rate design alternatives are outlined and include: Status Quo, existing rate structure;Scenario A – reduced thresholds;Scenario B – excess-use rates;Scenario C – three blocks; and,Scenario D – three block SFR. Evaluation criteria is given, along with criteria for implementation, equity, customer impact, conservation, and financial, reasons why Scenario A was selected, and, mitigation for rate schock. Includes tables, figures.
Product Details
- Edition:
- Vol. – No.
- Published:
- 06/01/2006
- Number of Pages:
- 57
- File Size:
- 1 file , 1.8 MB
- Note:
- This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus
