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Download or read book Energy Utility Rate Setting written by Lowell Alt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Practical Guide to the Retail Rate Setting Process for Regulated Electric and Natural Gas Utilities. This book explains how the traditional rate-setting process is commonly done for energy utilities. This book includes a discussion of revenue requirement, rate base, cost of capital, expenses, revenues, rate-making objectives, cost of service studies, rate design, the rate case process, tariff policies, metering, service quality and other types of cases affecting rates. The book concludes with a numerical example showing the calculation steps from revenue requirement to rate design.