If we categorize the electricity industry functionally into three areas of production, distribution and transmission, the transmission area, due to the nature of the natural monopoly and the high fixed cost that requires to set up, it is still priced on a mandatory and non-market basis. Therefore, the challenge of fair pricing, while estimating all current and future costs, is one of the questions of policy makers and decision makers in this field. In this research, first, different methods of pricing electricity transmission services are introduced and then the shortcomings of them by considering the structure of the Iranian electricity market are expressed. Then, using the electricity data of Khorasan regions, the proposed method for pricing electricity transmission services is explained.
Goldani M, porkar S. An Assessment of Electricity Transmission Pricing Methods And Finding Suitable One for Iran’s Electricity Industry. J Energy Market Res 2023; 1 (1) :1001-1010 URL: http://ijoem.ir/article-1-21-en.html