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Energy Systems Integration (ESI) is an emerging paradigm and at the centre of the EU energy debate. ESI takes a holistic view of the electricity, gas and heat sectors to deliver a clean, reliable and affordable energy system. By identifying and exploiting the synergies within and between the...
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Digital technologies from outside the electricity industry are prompting changes in both regulatory institutions and electric utility business models, leading to the disaggregation or unbundling of historically vertically integrated electricity firms in some jurisdictions and not others, and...
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in Italy, and employ a stacked border diff-in-diff method. We compare the change in PV installations following the …
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policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …
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costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in …. A connected set of price caps exists so that a hybrid regulation consisting of any element in this set and the cost …
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of regulation on R&D investment. Nearing competition has a dampening effect on R&D spending, but once the market and … could not find any evidence that (ownership) unbundling and incentive regulation affect R&D expenditures of the utilities. …
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Despite the positive effect electricity grids separated from generation and supply by ownership are expected to have on the level of competition in the non-network activities, several EU member states still adhere to a solely legally unbundled transmission grid. This choice might be induced by...
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This paper assesses the integration strategy of the European Union in regulated network markets. The paper argues that in these markets integration should not be an end in itself. In regulated markets the conventional gains from trade or freedom of establishment may be outweighed by significant...
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Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a … switch in the price regulation regime from rate-of-return regulation to incentive regulation during our observation period …
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This paper examines empirically whether differences in legal competences of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) of European gas and electricity markets are rationally aligned to the corresponding countries' divergent levels of 1) security, 2) competitiveness, and 3) carbon-neutrality of...
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