ADA responds to DCUSA on TCR charges banding for peaky demand customers

For such customers the new fixed residual charge is based on connection agreements which in most cases the ASC reflects as a regular anticipated peak capacity. However for others, this peak capacity is very infrequently used and most of their demand is at significantly far lower levels of maximum capacity requirements.

ADA’s response focuses on the impacts upon internal drainage boards (IDBs) who are local public authorities that work to reduce the risk of flooding and carefully manage water levels across lowland England. The many IDBs that operate hundreds of pumping stations to reduce the risk of flooding have seen very large increases in their standing charges for electricity supply to these sites since the implementation of the TCR. These increasing costs have put substantial pressures upon the finances of IDBs, and by extension the local agricultural land managers and local authorities that fund them.