Open source electricity costs
Electricity costs should be transparent no ? I will open source Powa's market data and methodology to make it transparent and verifiable !
One of Powa's missions is to make electricity costs transparent. The starting point to achieve this is to publish the contractual data that calculations will be based upon. Turns out in my case in Belgium, this is pretty complex. Let me brake it down. Your total electricity bill will comes from 2 mains source: supply and distribution costs.
Taking a particular example in Belgium, here are the components that can be part of your bill break down.
Supply:
- monthly/annual subscription cost
- per consumed kWh cost (depends on your meter type, day/night..)
- per injected kWh cost
Distribution:
- distribution costs - simple
- distribution costs - day
- distribution costs - night
- distribution costs - night exclusive
- transport costs
- data management tariff / metering and measurement activities / fixed term
- prosumer tariff
- data Management tariff
- capacity tariff
- special excise duty
- energy contribution
- connection fee
- green certificates contribution
- cogeneration contribution
- public service obligations
... kinda crazy right?
These will all have to be taken into consideration when computing costs. The most transparent and verifiable way for me to do this is to opensource this data. This will allow anybody to:
- see the source data
- verify and challenge the data
- contribute and add new contract data. Crowdsourcing world electricity contract & costs data seems like a scalable way to do this.
So here, we go, you can find the first set of data on Powa's Github: https://github.com/open4ip/powa-pub