Liberalisation has had a marked effect on innovative activities in the electricity industry. R&D and patenting … activities are generally regarded respectively as innovative inputs to and outputs from technological progress. Electricity … activity in the UK electricity sector. The results indicate that electricity related patents in non-nuclear and renewable …

electricity (and by implication heat) network regulation. We do this in the context of Ofgem’s RPIX@ 20 Review of energy … then apply the lessons to electricity networks in the context of a possible increase in distributed generation directly … several implications of this for the regulation of electricity and heat networks. …

explore the determinants of outcomes in electricity network regulation. We construct a model of explained behaviour where we …

Quality of service has emerged as an important issue in post-reform regulation of electricity distribution networks … presents a quality-incorporated benchmarking study of the electricity distribution utilities in the UK between 1991/92 and 1998 …

This paper discusses some of the new and continuing ways in which the public sector is involved in the electricity … and nuclear power, LNG facilities, electricity and gas distribution investments and energy service companies for combined …

, hail, temperatures, rainfall and thunder) on the performance of electricity distribution networks in the UK. The results …

This paper discusses whether a new paradigm is necessary for independent economic regulation of electricity (and … closely associated natural gas) systems. We begin by summarising the nature of the traditional model of electricity reform and … the place of economic regulation within it. Next we outline the drivers for changing the current model of electricity …

The Dutch regulatory process for setting the first X-Factors in the electricity distribution sector has gone badly … wildly. We demonstrate that Dutch electricity consumers will pay at least €300mln. more over three years for the distribution … of electricity than might otherwise have been the case. We estimate that benefits for companies in terms of extra revenue …