AN APPROACH TO TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK CONNECTION CHARGES

Abstract

The article sets out the results of elaboration and analysis of the basic features and premises for an approach to charges for connecting consumer and generator of electricity to the transmission and distribution network. The scope and significances of basic and modified versions of approaches to connection charge in the general context of electrical energy system and the electrical energy market are shown. All the aspects are illustrated from available world experience and practice as well as according to results of analogous methodological treatment applied to networked thermal energy and gas piping systems. It is the intention of the authors to draw attention to the essential features and assumptions of the different approaches to connection charges, the importance of transparency in the relations between connection charges and network use charges, and the consequences of different approaches to network users, particularly of renewable energy source generating plants.