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The Regulatory Assistance Project 50 State Street, Suite 3 Montpelier, VT Phone: “Designing Distributed Generation Tariffs Well” Arizona Corporation Commission Workshop June 20, 2014 Presented by Carl Linvill, PhD

Introducing RAP and Carl RAP is a non-profit organization providing technical and educational assistance to government officials on energy and environmental issues. RAP Principals all have extensive utility regulatory experience. – Dr. Carl Linvill is Principal with RAP. He has worked for PG&E, as an academic economist, as Energy/Economic Advisor to NV Gov. Kenny Guinn, and as a PUC Commissioner. 2

Today’s Agenda Context: Fair Compensation in the Transition toward N-way Transactions Designing DG Tariffs Well: 12 Points Rate Design Examples and Lessons Questions 3

The Transition toward N-way Transactions Technology is making customer resources less expensive Technology is enabling customer resource participation Power sector institutions are evolving What constitutes fair compensation in a time of transition? 4

Sound Decision-Making Benefits All For consumers: Keep more $$, quality For utilities: Corporate health, purpose For investors: Safety, value, expectations For employees: Safety and welfare, pride For the regulatory process: Confidence For society: Key role for power in society A process that promotes shifting risk rather than managing risk is inherently unstable

Designing DG Tariffs Well: Twelve Points 1.Value is a two (or more) way street 2.Consider all relevant sources of benefit and cost over the long term 3.Select & implement a valuation method 4.Cross-subsidies may flow either way 6

Consider: Cross-Subsidies Run Both Ways If value of PV < compensation: – Other customers subsidize PV customers – Under-recovery of utility’s fixed costs – Upward pressure on rates (cross subsidy) – Reduced utility shareholder returns If value of PV > compensation: – PV customers subsidize other customers – Suppresses PV deployment 7

Twelve Points … 5.Extrapolating from extreme situations is misleading 6.Infant industry subsidy tradition 7.Rules matter (e.g. interconnection) 8.No more complicated than necessary 8

Consider: Don’t Extrapolate from Extremes Tail Block Rates Vary (E3, 2013) 9

Twelve Points 9.Support innovative power sector models 10.Keep incentive decision separate from rate design 11.Keep decoupling decision separate from rate design 12.Consider mechanisms for “have-nots” 10

Rate Design Matters Due to Price Response: Up to a 15% “Swing” In Projected Usage 11 Estimated Change In Usage -7% +8%

Consider: Many Possible Alternative or Supplemental Tariff Policies 12 Fixed charges Demand charges Bi-directional distribution rates Time-based rates Minimum monthly bills Stand-by rates Value of Solar Tariff (VOST) Separate PV customer class

Recovery of Local Distribution Costs What Belongs in the Fixed Charge? The only distribution costs that are attributable to any particular customer are the meter and service drop, and billing costs. A fixed charge that covers more than this diverges from long regulatory traditions. The transformer must be sized to the combined load of a few customers. The rest is sized to the combined load of many customers.

How Should Poles and Wires Costs Be Recovered? The distribution infrastructure is sized to the combined loads of all customers. Adding (or losing) a customer does not change these costs. They are built to deliver electricity (kWh). All customers using them should share in the cost. If combined peak demand changes, the system design would change. Bi-directional kWh or a kW charge is appropriate.

Recovery of Bulk Power Costs? Capacity requirements are driven by peak demand. Baseload resources are built for energy. Transmission is mostly associated with remote (baseload and renewable) generating plant. TOU Energy Charge best follows the cost causation.

Illustration of Alternative Rate Designs for Net-Metering 16 Each alternative produces $150/month from a customer using 1,000 kWh/month

Residential Fixed/Variable Rate Design All distribution costs are recovered in the monthly fixed charge, regardless of usage level. Only the energy charge is subject to net-metering.

Residential Demand Charge Similar to typical commercial rates. Demand charge based on highest demand for the month. Only the energy charge is subject to net-metering.

Bi-Directional Rate Concept When PV customer receives power from the grid, the grid operator is compensated. When PV customer delivers power to the grid, the grid operator is compensated. The power flows in both directions at the same TOU values. Requires bi-directional metering.

Breakdown of Hypothetical PV Customer Bill 20 Assumptions: 10 kW maximum demand; 1,000 kWh total consumption, 50% on- peak; 1,000 kWh total on-site production. 500 kWh imported from grid off-peak; 500 kwh exported to grid on-peak

21 Fixed Charges Disproportionately Affect Low Volume Customers

Value of Solar Tariff (VOST) A Form of Feed-In Tariff Customer receives “value” for energy, capacity, and other services solar provides. Consumer buys all power at normal retail rate. 22 One Utility View One Advocate View

RMI Survey Of Multiple VOST Studies: Simple Average: $.1672/kWh 23 Note: The “Avg Value of Solar” was calculated by RAP and is an average of “apples and oranges” methodologies

Value of Solar Tariff Typically a Buy/Sell Arrangement Utility “buys” solar output at levelized price of a new renewable resource. Customer pays “normal” residential tariff, (which likely rises over time). 24

Conclusions on Tariff Design Align valuation with the public interest The “grid” is important to all customers and these costs should be fairly recovered from all A DG customer provides value to all customers and that value should be compensated fairly NEM, FIT and VOS FIT tariffs can each be designed well to provide fair compensation 25

Conclusions “Rates” are based on average embedded costs, new resources are paid based on marginal costs so the “rate” may be >,< or = “price” paid to an incremental resource Creative rate design can provide for fair compensation w/o harming small users Administrative simplicity matters 26

27 Questions?

About RAP The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) is a global, non-profit team of experts that focuses on the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the power and natural gas sectors. RAP has deep expertise in regulatory and market policies that:  Promote economic efficiency  Protect the environment  Ensure system reliability  Allocate system benefits fairly among all consumers Learn more about RAP at Carl Linvill Designing DG Tariffs Well: