The ERRA Online Training “Electricity Tariff Setting: A Practical Guide” is an opportunity for regulators and utility professionals to obtain a detailed insight into the allowed revenue calculation and electricity tariff-setting process. The course will be broken down in a step-by-step fashion in a 4-week interactive online training, to ensure trainees obtain a sound understanding of the fundamental objectives of price regulation and the techniques regulators employ to achieve them. Theoretical discussions and international examples of application will be complemented by practical excel exercises. We continue our partnership with seasoned experts from DNV.
Course Agenda
- Economics of Price Regulation
- Wholesale Electricity Markets and RES Support Schemes
- Building up the Allowed Revenues
- Integration of Capital Expenditures in the Regulatory Asset Base (RAB)
- Multi-Year Tariff Framework and Incentive-based Regulation: Cases of Nigeria and the Philippines
- Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)
- Efficiency Analysis in Allowed Revenue Determination
- Regulation and Tariff Setting in Practice: The Case of Austrian Network Operators
- From Revenues to Tariffs: End-User Tariff Structures and Design
- Setting Revenue Requirement for Regulated Utilities: Practices in Distribution Tariffs in Turkey
For detailed agenda please contact the ERRA Secretariat.
Course Faculty Team
Methodology
The training is based on a self-paced collaborative e-learning platform that features a combination of real-time interactive presentations by the instructors, Excel modeling exercises, online tutoring at pre-announced times, reading material related to the course modules and weekly exercises coupled with homework assignments.
- Proposed average weekly engagement: 10-12 hours
- Live Sessions are starting at 09:00 CET (GMT+1, Budapest time). | Convert to your time zone
The course will run for 4 weeks with the following weekly sequence:
Mondays
Real-time presentations on the presented materials. Presentations will be followed by Q&A sessions. Presentations will be recorded and made available to those who could not join the real-time presentations.
Tuesdays
Real-time presentations on the presented materials. Presentations will be followed by Q&A sessions. Presentations will be recorded and made available to those who could not join the real-time presentations. Distribution of weekly assignments.
Wednesdays
Self-paced work.Thursdays
Online tutoring for the duration of approx. 2 hours with the Course Instructors of the week.Sundays
Submission deadline of the weekly assignment.Friday (on last week)
Submission of final test and weekly assignment.Completion
10 CER credits is awarded to those participants who successfully completed the course. Learn more about ERRA Certified Energy Regulator Programme.