In many countries, distribution grid tariffs are being reformed to adapt to the new realities of an electricity system with distributed energy resources. In Europe, legislative proposals have been made to harmonize these reforms across country borders. Many stakeholders have argued that...

Among all types of economic activities in Ukraine the power industry is the only one that utilizes cross subsidization mechanisms. Electricity tariffs for the residential consumers are set far below the estimated retail level, while industrial consumers have to pay higher prices in order to...

We estimate the welfare implications of a cost-reflective 'Coasian' reform of electricity network tariffs using an Irish case study. We find that current Distribution Use of System (DUoS) tariffs deviate considerably from a cost-reflective structure. At the individual level, tariff reform leads...