Abstract :
In the Swedish electricity system there is a great potential for increasing
the cost efficiency of electricity use. Today economic incentives, offered for
instance by existing electricity tariffs, are too weak to improve the use of
the system. On the Swedish electricity market, there are at least three
different participants, the power producer, the distributor and the customer.
Today these participants act separately owing to low awareness of the costs
for electricity over the year and the day. If the participants are aware of the
real electricity costs, cost-effective incentives for cooperation will arise.
When participants cooperate, the introduction of end-use measures will
reduce system costs for those participants that are involved in cooperation.
We present a system analysis for cooperation between distributor and
customers. We also present results from a project, where behaviours of
an existing distributor and existing customers have been analysed. The
results show that there exist cost-effective incentives for cooperation
when end-use measures are introduced. Copyright
