Regulation, costing and pricing of district heating
What are the cost drivers of district heating? What is a "fair" price for district heating? How should the governance and regulation for district heating networks look like?
Services Industriels de Genève (SIG), Office cantonal de l'énergie (OCEN)
Project period2020
Related expertiseRegulation, Competition Economics, Strategy and Pricing, Energy
TeamUrs Trinkner, Matthias Finger, Ann-Kathrin Crede, Tobias Binz, Felix Wüthrich, Romain de Luze, Lilia Habibulina
ContactProject description
Together with Services Industriels de Genève (SIG) and the Office cantonal de l'énergie (OCEN), Swiss Economics is developing principles for deriving a ‘juste tarif’, deriving costing and pricing from these and supporting the canton in organising governance. The ‘juste tarif’ should be affordable, cost-based and competitive.
Methods
- Internationale und nationale Case Studies
- Literature analysis
- Regulatory and institutional economics
- Costing: Cost analysis of the district heating networks of SIG and other providers (in Switzerland and abroad)
- Pricing: Derivation of tariff models for district heating in Geneva
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