Practical experience of benchmarking to estimate distribution companies’ revenues

M. Rodríguez, J. Rivier, T. Gómez, S. Ortiz

IEEE PowerTech Conference - PowerTech 2003, Bologna (Italy). 22-26 junio 2003

Summary:
This paper presents a complete overview of a practical process to estimate regulated distribution-companies (DISCOS) revenues. An international benchmarking method is used to compare the performance of three DISCOS to the performance of a set of utilities that have been selected as a reference. Advantages and disadvantages of the applied method are shown.

Keywords: Benchmarking, Clustering methods, Comparators, Distribution regulation, Electric Utilities, Power industry, Regulators.

DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2003.1304793

Publication date: June 2003.

Citation:
Rodríguez, M., Rivier, J., Gómez, T., Ortiz, S., Practical experience of benchmarking to estimate distribution companies’ revenues, IEEE PowerTech Conference - PowerTech 2003, Bologna (Italy). 22-26 June 2003.

IIT-03-026A