Methodology to "decipher" the electricity bill of a prosumer in Spain: application to practice 4 of the course Generation, Transmission, and Distribution of Electricity

Abstract

[EN] The calculation of the electricity bill components is not an easy task in Spain. Such calculation is even more complex when there is a renewable system in the equation consumer-producer (Prosumer). One of the skills that the student of the course on Generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity, belonging to the master's in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in Spain, must learn is how to calculate an electricity bill. This paper aims to give the students a tool to learn how to estimate a prosumer electricity bill, employing a methodology that facilitates and makes learning faster. A real prosumer Electricity bill was employed, analyzed, and calculated. Each concept will be segregated and calculated, explaining how it was obtained. The tools used for carrying out the practice are MS excel and the web of i-DE for downloading the hourly data of the invoice. A detailed method to calculate the electricity bill was obtained as a final result.