Xiamen University, China Energy Economic Research Center, a recent study shows that developed countries and regions have been more generally practiced residents stepped increments electricity. After the 1970s oil crisis, energy and environmental issues have become an increasing importance in developed countries residential electricity consumption is basically the implementation of increment system, that is, electricity is more, the higher the tariff.
this tariff to take care to low-income people to maintain a minimum standard of living, electricity world pie network information , commonly known as "the poor electricity.
"price ladder" full name "ladder progressive tariff" means the average household electricity consumption is set to a number of steps, the first step for the base power, less power in this ladder. per kWh of electricity is also lower; the second step with higher consumption rates, higher tariff, the third step for more power, electricity is also higher. With the increase in average household consumption of electricity per kilowatt-hour tariff incremental.
Recently, the State Development and Reform Commission announced that residents stepped tariff reform the fastest in the first quarter next year launch of electricity more World Pipe network informed, the higher the tariff.