Alternative study for industrial enterprise operation under TOD rates

Electrical price has the roles of both the calculation basis of electrical consumption expenditure for users to compensate the production cost of electric utilities and the lever for adjusting the relation between electric energy supply and demand. The existing electrical price system in China has some drawbacks and disadvantage. The adoption of time-of-day (TOD) rates is the main content of electrical price system reformation at present. This paper, based on TOD rates which are on trial now, analyses the influence of adopting TOD rates on electric cost in industrial enterprises, approaches ways of how to adjust and organize production operations rationally, looks at how to improve the property of electrical load and how to reduce the cost of using electricity in enterprises, and presents some proposals to better implement the results of TOD rates