This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of competitive market structures for the electricity sector, as developed in the economics literature, is outlined: competitive markets in generation and retailing and an...

This chapter discuss about how clean energy investment in Indonesia is doable to improve poverty alleviation. I conducted analysis both qualitative as well as quantitative approach to measure this policy initiatives towards barriers of implementation

This study proposes a social-environmental economic model, based on Regional Sequential Interindustry Model (SIM) integrated with geoprocessing data, in order to identify economic, pollution and public health impacts in state and municipality levels for energy planning analysis. Integrating I-O...

The privatization policy for power generation system in Brazil needs that investments on new plants should be profitable. This depends on regulation rules: a) the cost of energy supplied on deficit situation; b) the normative value of energy that is the maximum value of energy for long-run...