Distribution pricing and tariff structure: The ongoing US reforms

It is hard to report at present any streamlined efforts toward reforming distribution pricing and tariffs to better reflect the technological changes and their value. In particular, at present there is no direct relation between the demand-response commitments to participating in peak load shaving, direct load control programs, on one side, and the prices reflecting their value. As a rule, the signals reflecting the value of the technologies underlying these functionalities are not in place.