Oil backout and the price of electricity |
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Authors: | Andrew Ford Annette Polyzou |
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Affiliation: | Economics Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we examine the probable effect on electricity rates of an overbuilding strategy for several different types of utility companies. A computer simulation model is used to project the price of electricity that a hypothetical, oil-dependent, investor-owned, electric utility would have to charge in order to recover its annual costs and earn the allowed return on investment. The final results take the form of penalty/cost curves showing the values of the oil backout cost ratio for which overbuilding would lead to higher/lower rates. |
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