Market Power and Electricity Market Reform in Northeast China
The Northeast region of China has been used as a testing ground for creation of a functioning wholesale electric power market. We describe the ownership structure of the generation assets for those plants participating in the trial operation of the Northeast China Regional Electricity Market and also for the region as a whole and for each of the provinces making up the region. We calculate the 4-firm Concentration Ratio (CR4) and the Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI). In general, we find that the current ownership structure is relatively concentrated. Arguably, this is a troublesome obstacle to instituting some form of competitive bidding in the wholesale power market, and this may be one factor in the poor outcome of the trial operation.
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2008-01
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Authors: | Zhang, Xiaochun ; Parsons, John E. |
Institutions: | Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR), Sloan School of Management |
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