{"title":"Modelling features and outcomes of Brazil's electricity tariff flag program","authors":"Bruno Goulart de Freitas Machado","doi":"10.1016/j.jup.2024.101759","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Brazil's Tariff Flag Program is presented with its main modelling features and outcomes explored. The program's virtue is coupling several independent procurement commitments in a single target cash flow linked to an information framework, which seeks to provide real-time awareness about the power system's production costs. Regulatory principles such as simplicity and stability challenge the modelling approach. The framework may be useful for non- or partially liberalised power markets, where uniform tariff rates are common. It also may help utilities to deal with wholesale prices' volatilities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":23554,"journal":{"name":"Utilities Policy","volume":"88 ","pages":"Article 101759"},"PeriodicalIF":3.8000,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Utilities Policy","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957178724000523","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"ENERGY & FUELS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Brazil's Tariff Flag Program is presented with its main modelling features and outcomes explored. The program's virtue is coupling several independent procurement commitments in a single target cash flow linked to an information framework, which seeks to provide real-time awareness about the power system's production costs. Regulatory principles such as simplicity and stability challenge the modelling approach. The framework may be useful for non- or partially liberalised power markets, where uniform tariff rates are common. It also may help utilities to deal with wholesale prices' volatilities.
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Utilities Policy is deliberately international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral. Articles address utility trends and issues in both developed and developing economies. Authors and reviewers come from various disciplines, including economics, political science, sociology, law, finance, accounting, management, and engineering. Areas of focus include the utility and network industries providing essential electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater, solid waste, communications, broadband, postal, and public transportation services.
Utilities Policy invites submissions that apply various quantitative and qualitative methods. Contributions are welcome from both established and emerging scholars as well as accomplished practitioners. Interdisciplinary, comparative, and applied works are encouraged. Submissions to the journal should have a clear focus on governance, performance, and/or analysis of public utilities with an aim toward informing the policymaking process and providing recommendations as appropriate. Relevant topics and issues include but are not limited to industry structures and ownership, market design and dynamics, economic development, resource planning, system modeling, accounting and finance, infrastructure investment, supply and demand efficiency, strategic management and productivity, network operations and integration, supply chains, adaptation and flexibility, service-quality standards, benchmarking and metrics, benefit-cost analysis, behavior and incentives, pricing and demand response, economic and environmental regulation, regulatory performance and impact, restructuring and deregulation, and policy institutions.