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.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| File Size : | 1
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, 1.8 MB |
| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 57 |
| Published : | 06/01/2006 |
