{"id":11675,"date":"2020-06-01T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=11675"},"modified":"2025-01-29T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:30:33","slug":"one-water-demand-management-rethinking-ratemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2020\/06\/01\/one-water-demand-management-rethinking-ratemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"One Water Demand Management: Rethinking Ratemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Balancing demand, affordability, conservation, and equity in water rates<\/em><\/p>\n<p>By Michael Grinshpun, Josef Benzaoui, Jacqueline Ashmore<\/p>\n<p>June 2020<\/p>\n<p>As water utilities develop new rate structures to generate adequate revenue to meet increasing demand, integrating demand management and equity measures to support low-income customers can help limit the need for further expansion. To help utilities balance demand, affordability, conservation, and equity in ratemaking practices, the Institute for Sustainable Energy (now the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability) analyzed considerations, principles, and a case study from New Braunfels Utilities (NBU) in Texas.<\/p>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/files\/2020\/06\/one-water-demand-management-rethinking-ratemaking-june2020-final.pdf' class='button '>Download Report<\/a>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Key Findings and Recommendations<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Water utility decision-makers can use this analysis to deepen their understanding of the correlation between ratemaking, demand, conservation, and equity.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>Demand management and equity can be part of an integrated urban water management approach (also known as the One Water approach).<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>The rate structure case study from NBU shares how the utility was able to increase revenue, encourage water demand management, and maintain equity.<br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><\/li>\n<li>The Alliance for Water Efficiency\u2019s Sales and Forecasting model establishes a rate structure that meets a revenue target while managing demand and affordability for low-income customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h3 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Project Overview<\/h3><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/research\/projects\/one-water\/\">One Water<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IGS Research | June 2020 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[691,332],"tags":[653,210,630,72],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11675"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21191,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11675\/revisions\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}