Application to a Player Operating in Italy of an AHP Model for the Identification of the Most Advantageous Technical Alternatives in the Management of the Integrated Water Service

Macchiaroli, Maria; Dolores, Luigi; Pellecchia, Vincenzo; Mare, Gianluigi De; Nestıcò, Antonio; Maselli, Gabriella

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-58820-5_11

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“…The serious deficiencies of the South are to be attributed to limited managerial and organizational capacities, rather than to a lack of funds. This is especially true for those managements directly entrusted to municipalities that manage water services on a tight budget (Macchiaroli et al, 2020;Nesticò et al, 2020). To reduce the Water Service Divide, new regulatory provisions have recently been introduced.…”

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The water tariff structure in the new Convergence Regulatory Scheme

Macchiaroli¹,

Dolores²,

Mare³

Global NEST International Conference on Environmental Science &Amp; Technology

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The most recent innovation in the regulation of the Italian Urban Water Management is the introduction of the Convergence Regulatory Scheme. The new tariff preparation method introduced by the Italian Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks, and Environment (ARERA) aims to simplify the mechanism for identifying the water tariff for those managements characterized by enduring critical issues regarding investment planning and management of the Urban Water Management. The application of the Convergence scheme provides for the estimate of parametric costs to be considered in the construction of the water tariff, considering different cases depending on the management information available. But the same convergence mechanism also provides obligations for the Managers, including the structuring of tariff classes in compliance with the provisions of the ARERA resolutions. The initial point for defining the user's tariff structure is the Manager's Revenue Constraint, estimated based on a reference benchmark. This study proposes a mathematical programming model that allows, in compliance with the constraints dictated by the ARERA resolutions, to define the tariff structure for users in the application of the Convergence Regulatory Scheme, thus supporting in the complex decision process all those Operators that present serious problems in the management of the water service.

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confidence: 99%