Designing a comprehensive separated regulation mechanism of distribution companies considering short- and long-term asset management

Abstract

The regulation of distribution system operator is changing from the traditional approach to performance-based regulation (PBR). In this study a novel PBR approach is proposed for the regulation of a distribution company with consideration for asset management time scopes. In this regard a comprehensive separated regulation mechanism is presented so that the total expenditure for asset management is categorised into two: capital expenditure (Capex) and operational expenditure (Opex). A separate Capex and Opex regulation is proposed for electric distribution company regulation. A new reward and penalty scheme is proposed to efficiently regulate the quality of the network at a desirable level. The proposed methods are applied on the Iranian electricity distribution company.

Estimación del gasto total (TOTEX) de empresas de distribución mediante modelos de red de referencia y de fronteras de eficiencia

“…La cuantificación del TOTEX puede realizarse por medio de diferentes metodologías (Cossent, 2013). En (Miri et al, 2017) se presenta, por ejemplo, una regulación separada de OPEX y CAPEX para empresas de distribución que tiene en cuenta los plazos de gestión de activos. Los autores proponen un nuevo esquema de incentivos y penalizaciones para regular de manera eficiente la calidad de la red a un nivel deseable aplicado al caso iraní.…”