Development of the utilisation and smart grid incentive scheme within the Swedish revenue cap regulation

• This study provides a summary on how Swedish distribution system operators (DSO) are regulated after a revenue cap model, and describes a potential development on the current utilization incentive scheme within this regulation. The analyses are based on data from a Swedish DSO, which have been elaborated with the use of demand response program. The outcome of the demand response simulation has in a later step been applied to calculate the incentive in the revenue cap regulation. Two different calculation approaches are used and compared in order to calculate the load factor in the revenue cap regulation. The results of the case study show that by applying a weighted daily load factor, the DSO in the case study can receive ~3% additional economic income compared to applying an average daily load factor in the incentive calculation. The motivation behind applying weighted load factor is to prioritize days with high energy consumption since those days have more impact on the costs. Most important, the analysis display that replacing the average load factor with a weighted load factor have a non-negligible impact on the incentive calculation and hence if the change fulfill its purpose enough.

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TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Annan elektroteknik och elektronik (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering (hsv//eng)

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