Electric retail rate design is relevant to utilities, customers, and regulators as retail rates impact the utility's revenue as well as the customers' electricity bills. In California, regulators approve rate proposals by privately owned vertical integrated utilities. Approval, however, is subject to...
A steadying but still-fragile supply chain Disruptions to supply chains during the pandemic have increased out-of-stock rates by upward of 15 percent, compared with historical rates of 5 to 10 percent.2 Issues over the past t...
Currently, commodities that can be traded on a commodity exchange include, but are not limited to, crude oil, light crude oil, natural gas, heating oil, gasoline, propane, ethanol, electricity, uranium, lean hogs, pork bellies, live cattle, feeder cattle, wheat, corn, soybeans, oats, rice...
2. Present Retail Electricity Market and Recent Developments The retail electricity market is the economic platform that facilitates the provision of electricity to retail customers. Historically, most retail customers worldwide were subjected to electricity rates defined by electric utilities and regulated ...