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The impact of ownership unbundling on cost efficiency: Empirical evidence from the New Zealand electricity distribution sector
Filippini, Massimo; Wetzel, Heike - In: Energy Economics 45 (2014) C, pp. 412-418
productive efficiency of the companies due to the use of the inputs in just one activity and a greater level of transparency for … the regulator. This paper analyzes the cost efficiency of 28 electricity distribution companies in New Zealand for the … function are estimated in order to evaluate the impact of ownership unbundling on the level of cost efficiency. The results …
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Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the US Grid
Davis, Lucas W.; Hausman, Catherine; Rose, Nancy L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Encouraged by the declining cost of grid-scale renewables, recent analyses conclude that the United States could reach net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 at relatively low cost using currently available technologies. While the cost of renewable generation has declined dramatically,...
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Energy Transitions in Regulated Markets
Gowrisankaran, Gautam; Langer, Ashley; Reguant, Mar - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Natural gas has replaced coal as the dominant fuel for U.S. electricity generation. However, U.S. states that regulate electric utilities have retired coal more slowly than others. We build a structural model of rate-of-return regulation during an energy transition where utilities face tradeoffs...
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Impact of high-powered incentive regulation on efficiency and productivity growth of Norwegian electricity utilities
Senyonga, Livingstone; Bergland, Olvar - In: The energy journal 39 (2018) 5, pp. 231-255
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Investitionsregulierung in Stromverteilnetzen
Elsenbast, Wolfgang; Boche, Steffen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 93 (2013) 5, pp. 315-322
, simplified cost recognition schemes can be considered, but the extent to which they might improve cost efficiency must be …
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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries : The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation
de Almeida, Edmar - 2005
This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...
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Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry
Steiner, Faye - 2000
constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform on efficiency and price, and to assess the relative efficacy of …
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Regulation of Access, Pricing, and Planning of High Voltage Transmission in the U.S.
De Losa, Joe; Pfeifenberger, Johannes P.; Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The U.S. regulation of high-voltage transmission is highly complex and, as a result, generally poorly understood. The complexity is created by separate, but overlapping, jurisdictional authorities of the U.S. federal regulators and those of individual states, districts, and territories. While...
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Deregulation, vertical unbundling and the performance of China's large coal-fired power plants
Zhao, Xiaoli; Ma, Chunbo - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 474-483
five generation groups and two grid companies in an effort to increase competition and improve efficiency. In this paper …, we study the impact of this deregulation reform on the operational efficiency for a balanced panel of 34 large power …
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China's electricity market restructuring and technology mandates: Plant-level evidence for changing operational efficiency
Ma, Chunbo; Zhao, Xiaoli - In: Energy Economics 47 (2015) C, pp. 227-237
China's electricity sector has experienced substantial efficiency improvement during the last one and a half decades …. The recent literature has mostly attributed the efficiency improvement to the 2002 unbundling reform with little attention … contributed at least half of the observed efficiency improvement during this period. The results have significant implications for …
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