Pricing electric harmonics

摘要: Abstract Rapid growth in power electronic equipment (PEEs) implies that about 10 years, more than 50% of electric utility output will be consumed by PEEs. While PEEs yield benefits large energy savings and product reliability, they cause the problem harmonics. Harmonics deteriorate quality, produce metering errors, increase reactive power, exacerbate line losses heat transmission cables equipment. Thus, harmonics directly affect revenue costs. Our objectives are: (i) to characterize harmonics, (ii) describe effects on costs, (iii) propose alternative strategies for pricing We show efficiently using marginal cost principle is implementable with current technology existing billing systems.