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Originally Posted by DoubleK
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.
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Aaaaahhhhh. I haven't seen a power bill in Alberta since I was 20 years old. So you guys pay a separate transmission charge then and that's controlled by AESO? That makes sense then. I pay a basic charge (about $0.20/day) just to have a BC Hydro account, then 9.59¢/KWh up to 1350 KWh in a 2 month billing cycle, then 14.22¢/KWh after that. That's it. No other charges.