An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia

Time of Use (TOU) is a tariffs scheme that provides variable rate structure for electricity depending on time of day used. In Malaysia, currently, the TOU scheme is only available for industrial and commercial customers. However, the government has wanted to implement TOU scheme in residential area...

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Main Author: Mohammad Jalani, Sri Nor Hafidah
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Language:English
Published: 2018
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spelling my-utm-ep.790472018-09-27T04:15:45Z An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia 2018-01 Mohammad Jalani, Sri Nor Hafidah TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Time of Use (TOU) is a tariffs scheme that provides variable rate structure for electricity depending on time of day used. In Malaysia, currently, the TOU scheme is only available for industrial and commercial customers. However, the government has wanted to implement TOU scheme in residential area so that a better load profiling can be obtained in the power system. The changes from block tariff to TOU scheme might be increase the customers’ electricity bill. Besides that, the unsuitable TOU structure and pricing might also cause the utility to lose their profit. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to identify the suitable time structure and pricing that will give beneficial to the utility and customers. The recommendation on appropriate incentives along with the TOU pricing signals to encourage customers to have better management on their consumption will also being considered. Thus, the analysis is beginning with residential customers’ behavior modeling. Next, the information of total electricity bill paid by customers will be determined. Last but not least, the statistical analysis will be used to identify suitable TOU structure and pricing. Therefore, the outcome of this research is an effective TOU scheme that will give beneficial to residential customers (in term o f reduce electricity bill) and utility (in term o f profit). 2018-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79047/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79047/1/SriNorHafidahMFKE2018.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:109586 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle TK Electrical engineering
Electronics Nuclear engineering
Mohammad Jalani, Sri Nor Hafidah
An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia
description Time of Use (TOU) is a tariffs scheme that provides variable rate structure for electricity depending on time of day used. In Malaysia, currently, the TOU scheme is only available for industrial and commercial customers. However, the government has wanted to implement TOU scheme in residential area so that a better load profiling can be obtained in the power system. The changes from block tariff to TOU scheme might be increase the customers’ electricity bill. Besides that, the unsuitable TOU structure and pricing might also cause the utility to lose their profit. Therefore, the main objective of this research is to identify the suitable time structure and pricing that will give beneficial to the utility and customers. The recommendation on appropriate incentives along with the TOU pricing signals to encourage customers to have better management on their consumption will also being considered. Thus, the analysis is beginning with residential customers’ behavior modeling. Next, the information of total electricity bill paid by customers will be determined. Last but not least, the statistical analysis will be used to identify suitable TOU structure and pricing. Therefore, the outcome of this research is an effective TOU scheme that will give beneficial to residential customers (in term o f reduce electricity bill) and utility (in term o f profit).
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author Mohammad Jalani, Sri Nor Hafidah
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author_sort Mohammad Jalani, Sri Nor Hafidah
title An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia
title_short An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia
title_full An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia
title_fullStr An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed An effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in Malaysia
title_sort effective time of use tariffs scheme for residential area in malaysia
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/79047/1/SriNorHafidahMFKE2018.pdf
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