Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name:  William W. Hogan
Title:  A Primer on Transmission Benefits and Cost Allocation
Classification-JEL: F0
Volume:  Volume 7
Issue:  Number 1
Year:  2018
Abstract:  The cost of transmission facilities must be allocated to those within the transmission planning region that benefit from those facilities in a manner that is at least roughly commensurate with estimated benefits." (FERC, 2010, p. 91) Benefits include reliability, economic and public policy related impacts. Turning the principle into a workable policy is important as a support for restructured electricity markets. A challenge is to make the different measures of benefits commensurable, and to find approximations that honor the principle without imposing a standard of perfection. A framework for such cost allocation uses examples from existing models and transmission investment studies to describe how the cost allocation principle could apply within the limits of available analytical capabilities. 
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