A regulatory concept used to represent the total net costs of a resource decision. The TRC is used by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and other regulatory jurisdictions as one of several benchmarks used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of various programs, measures, and strategies.
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The cost to produce the next increment of a product or service. When used in water and energy resource planning, it is typically expressed as the incremental cost in $/unit to produce and/or deliver the next (marginal) resource, whether a gallon of water supply, a kilowatt or kilowatt-hour of electricity, or a therm of natural
The last unit of supply needed to meet demand for a product or service. On a short‐run basis, the marginal supply is typically the last unit of resource – whether a water supply resource, a kilowatt hour, or a therm – used to meet demand. On a long‐run basis, the marginal supply is typically the
A non-chronological, graphical summary of demand levels with corresponding time durations using a curve, which plots demand magnitude (power) on one axis and percent of time that the magnitude occurs on the other axis.
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The average amount of energy used to collect, produce, transport, treat, deliver and/or to collect, treat, and/or dispose of wastewater (typically expressed in kWh/AF or kWh/MG).
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