Crews from Southern California Edison work on damaged power lines. The utility and several others in the state are required to switch to time-of-use pricing, which charges more when electricity is costlier to produce. Just as more people fly during the holidays and drive during rush hour, the demand for electricity peaks at predictable times. […]
A new regulation has highlighted the thousands of offers electricity retailers make to new customers, mostly through commercial comparison sites. These sites typically do not include the best possible offers, funnelling consumers into higher-cost plans in exchange for fees from energy companies. From January 1 companies selling electricity in New South Wales, South East Queensland […]
Dynamic pricing could advance renewables while cutting both customer costs and system costs, suggests a petition from solar and storage industry participants. They call for a rulemaking process to give all customers the option to choose real-time pricing. As the enabling technologies of battery storage, electric vehicles, and automated demand response technology become more common, […]
Four power retailers have lodged a complaint with the Electricity Authority over the recent surge in wholesale prices. Vocus, Flick, Pulse and Electric Kiwi want the Authority to investigate the spike in prices over the past month, which have hit as high as $1,000 a megawatt hour, and are averaging three times the normal wholesale […]
Energy companies with more than 200,000 clients will be obliged to provide households with at least one offer comprising dynamic price contracts, under an EU-level agreement reached behind closed doors last week, EURACTIV.com has learned. European Union legislators made headway on a proposed overhaul of EU electricity market rules, striking an agreement on “aggregators” – or […]
Power retailer Flick Electric has customers experiencing such high spot prices many are opting to switch services – but at least one other retailer is refusing to take them on as customers. The company, which offers power at wholesale prices – also called spot prices – said the surge would continue to hit their customers’ wallets in the […]
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Proposals to link future price increases to Manx CPI Proposed changes to the charging structure for electricity, water and sewerage in the Island will offer consumers ‘stability’, according to the chair of Manx Utilities. Dr Alex Allinson will put forward a new five-year pricing strategy at the October sitting of Tynwald. If approved, it would see annual […]
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — Should what time of day you run your air conditioning or do a load of laundry impact the price? The city of Fort Collins thinks so. Starting next month, the city will go to a mandatory “time-of-day pricing” for city-run electricity. Think of it like the Uber for public utilities. Similar to […]
The CAG observed, “There were inadequacies in the pricing methodology followed by the Company. The multiplication factor adopted to scale up tariff for higher capacities was low, which adversely impacted revenue. Pricing of Indefeasible Right to Use (IRU) contracts was inconsistent with different methods applied for different contracts, leading to lower revenue for the business.” […]
Price indications for notional two, three and five year contracts for potential power transactions on Mexico’s MEM wholesale power market were included in the flagship Mexico Energy Report publication on 11 July in addition to the one-year contract already included. The survey results show that a two-year contract for the Valle de Mexico Norte node, […]
This Week in Pricing > 2/23/19
TWIP is a digest of pricing focused news, thought leadership, events, jobs, training and certification resources for pricing professionals. This Edition is brought to you by: PriceBeam The struggle is real for B2B and B2C Pricing, Marketing, and Finance team leaders to capture fresh, reliable, and actionable Pricing Intelligence data to be able to effectively optimize all prices for all market segments […]
PND is a digest of pricing focused news, thought leadership, events, jobs, training and certification resources for pricing professionals. This Edition is brought to you by: Professional Pricing Society Currently, PPS produces three major annual pricing conferences in Europe and North America. Each conference also houses a technology hall where sponsors display the latest in Pricing […]
Lyft’s ‘Shared Saver’ Feature Has Riders Pay Less But Walk More | Fortune
Lyft launched a new Shared Saver feature Thursday that banks on the assumption that riders are willing to walk a couple blocks to save a couple bucks. Promising to provide the app’s lowest prices, unaffected by surge pricing, Lyft wrote on its blog that Shared Saver gives riders a “pickup spot that’s a quick walk […]
Pricer’s Points: Why Does Bottled Water Cost Significantly More than Tap Water? | Elena Galli
More or less one month ago I was at the airport, heading back to Barcelona after having spent some days in my hometown, Ferrara, a little city in Northern Italy. I was very thirsty so I headed to the first bar I saw and ended up spending an excruciatingly expensive price for my half a […]
Remember MoviePass? It was just delisted | The Chestnut Post
The movie subscription service on Thursday announced a new, complicated pricing structure that is dependent on geography and the kind of movies customers want to watch. Starting in January, MoviePass will offer three plans that members can choose from. The first, called “Select,” starts at $10 a month and will allow subscribers to see three […]
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