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Tariff Categories- When Electric Utilities look to craft their rate structures (tariffs) to submit for their State’s Public Utility Commission approval, they seek to cover costs and earn a rate of return for various types of services.  First, they must ensure they have a monthly revenue stream regardless of whether they deliver a large amount of power, or none at all. ...

Electric Distribution entities across the US of all types (IOUs, Municipals, Cooperatives, and Government Agencies) have adopted similar pricing structures to serve their customers within their franchise service territories.  These “tariffs” typically incorporate some type of fixed monthly cost ($), distribution cost by monthly volume ($/kwh), demand charge for peak...

We took another look at the most profitable locations for a one-hour battery over the past year (excluding the craziness going on in February!).  One region we did not expect dominated the top 20 locations.  Register for the Clarity Grid mailing list below to get the full report and any future reports, blogs and news from Clarity Grid.  Register for the Clarity Grid...

First Half of 2021 Nodal Updates For years economists and other market researchers, suspicious of official government statistics, have watched Chinese electric consumption figures to more accurately gauge economic growth.  The thinking being that such figures as power consumption by industry sector or city was a more reliable indicator of what was happening in the “real...

Clarity Grid Solutions maintains a library of over 8,500 Tariffs from over 1,500 individual Distribution Utilities serving the lower 48 US States. Since distribution territory is typically defined by zip code these tariff sets are accessible on Clarity GIS Bing Maps GIS according to this mapping.  However, we have also made this library available through a Tariff Library...

  With the press reporting customers in Texas reeling from power bills, in some cases over $10,000, how bad did it get for the average customer in ERCOT on wholesale billing?  How bad would it have been for customers in Texas outside of ERCOT had they contracted for power off wholesale prices?  While SPP and MISO serve parts of Texas their pricing remains regulated...

Clarity maintains and updates a complete set of pricing for over 70,000 individual locational prices in the US.  This is commonly referred to as “nodal prices” in the electric industry jargon.  Nodal pricing typically comes in two varieties: “Load” and “Generation”.  In simplistic terms “Load” pricing occurs at a substation or “bus” and “Generation” pricing occurs at the...

Clarity Grid updates the nation’s wholesale electricity prices every five minutes. Clarity Grid displays both wholesale and retail energy pricing data for the entire U.S. power grid, all on one platform. Clarity Grid breaks down customer energy bills for any zip code and any retail electric tariff in the U.S., unlocking potentially billions of dollars in energy cost...