Passey et al. (2017) used actual energy consumption data of Sydney households to analyse the extent to which different electricity network demand tariffs charge customers according to the cost of their consumption. Among other things, they illustrate that a demand tariff that charges households’ individual monthly peak demand is less likely to be cost-reflective than one applied during the monthly network peak period.  Picture by Nastya Dulhiier, Unsplash Electricity network

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