Benchmarking and cost driver analysis of German power grids (EVS4)

What are the main cost drivers of power grids? How efficient are German distribution system operators (DSOs)?

Client

Bundesnetzagentur (BNetzA)

Project period

2021

Related expertise

Regulation, Efficiency and Productivity Analysis, Energy, Data Science

Team

Urs Trinkner, Andreas Stritt, Martin Koller, Per Agrell, Franziska Tischbein

Contact

Urs Trinkner

Project Description

In a consortium with SUMICSID and IAEW, Swiss Economics advises the German Bundesnetzagentur on the efficiency assessment of DSOs for the fourth regulatory period. Swiss Economics assumes the overall project lead.

The project scope entails the design of the data request, validation of data, assessment of comparators, cost driver analyses, and the modelling of an efficiency assessment. The analysis will allow us to determine individual efficiency values for German DSOs that feed into the determination of revenue caps.

Methods

Design of data requests
Data validation
OLS Analysis of average costs
Least Absolute Shrinkage and Selection Operator (LASSO)
Outlier and Dominance Analysis
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA)
Second-Stage Analysis
Stakeholderprozess

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