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This is one of five papers from a seminar about rate making for water wholesalers. The purpose of the seminar is present the principal factors that one should consider in developing charges for wholesale service and to discuss and illustrate those factors in some detail. Thus, the seminar as a whole serves as an overview of the topic. This, the first in the series, presents an overall introduction of the subject of wholesale service costs and rates, including definitions and characteristics of wholesale service, ownership responsibilities, and sets for the principal elements of cost of service, that is, operation and maintenance expenses, depreciation expense, and return on rate base. Potential forms of rates applicable to wholesale customers are discussed and illustrated. A variety of rate forms are discussed: uniform volume; volume-demand, in which a two or three part rate has one part applicable to the volume of water used and the other to measured demands imposed on the system by the customer so as to take into account peak demands; contract demand rates, which allow a wholesale customer to reserve a certain volume of water for future use.

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Published: 01/01/1992 ISBN(s): 0898676495 Number of Pages: 9File Size: 1 file , 420 KB