Smart retail tariffs
Client: LichtBlick
Neon team: Ingmar Schlecht, Jonathan Mühlenpfordt, Anselm Eicke
Published: 2023
Dynamic retail tariffs unlock decentralized flexibility, but the energy crisis showed their downside: rising spot prices hit customers’ bills directly, with severe social and political consequences. For the utility LichtBlick, we developed a dynamic tariff with price insurance: it specifies an annual volume, an hourly consumption profile, and a fixed price — households that consume as contracted pay exactly that price, while every deviation is settled at the spot price, preserving full flexibility incentives. We also developed a proposal for time-varying grid fees. This report was originally published in German.
Prof. Dr. Lion Hirth
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