Going with the wind: the time for time-of-use tariffs

• Author(s): Soares, Henrique de Brito Aranha Machado
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9619
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Wind variability; Variable tariff; Home energy manager; Energy efficiency
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Nunes, Luís Catela
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

This work project consists on the proposal of a product/service – Variable Time of Use Tariff – to enhance the innovativeness of the portfolio of EDP Comercial. This product/service is dependent on the simultaneous use of a smart meter, a home energy manager and a set of smart domestic appliances. To sustain my proposal I resorted to data about the wind energy, the use of smart meters together with time of use tariffs and the general characteristics of tariff structures in Europe. A SWOT analysis follows the description of the product/service, with one threat and one opportunity standing as major issues. The feasibility of the implementation of the tariff I propose depends entirely the future of these two factors, thus making this work project a future looking one.