Fundamental tarification of electricity

Over the past decade, power quality (PQ) issues became increasingly important. The most cited PQ problems are voltage dips, harmonic distortion and transient phenomena. The tarification method which is mostly used, tarifies the instantaneous active power. When absorbing harmonic power, e.g. when using an active filter, the customer has to pay for this. To overcome this, a tarification method is proposed. The fundamental tarification (FUT) method which is proposed tarifies a power which is based on the fundamental component of the grid voltage. An exaggerated effect can be implemented such that the customer is remunerated for increasing the power quality by absorbing harmonic power.