Quote:
Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Sorry, I get that in the end the consumer pays. What I mean is, the energy retailer that sells you the electricity is just buying it wholesale and selling it to consumers. AESO monitors the system but doesn't sell the electricity. The producers sell the electricity but don't buy transmission or reliability assets, so how do they get built?
The way I'm trying to understand this: if I buy my milk from the milk delivery truck, who pays for the road he drives on?
|
In Alberta, generators pay for their connection, full freight.
Load customers pay for their connection, but there are provisions within the tariff for system investment that is funded by the AESO through the transmission charge.
Ancillary services (like what we are talking about) are 100% funded through the transmission charge.
System inertia from large spinny generators was effectively "free" before the proliferation of renewables.