Motivated by the new auction format introduced in the England and Wales electricity market, as well as the recent … debate in California, we characterize bidding behavior and market outcomes in uniform and discriminatory electricity auctions … the analysis of electricity auctions. In particular, we show that analogies with continuous share auctions are misplaced …

overlapping regulatory structure and new entrant prohibitions have stifled new electricity sector investment. This paper … meet with greater success if it encourages and facilitates local private investment in small-scale electricity production …In India, the supply of electricity relies heavily on a virtually bankrupt and sometimes corrupt system of state …

In this paper we study two statistical approaches to load forecasting. Both of them model electricity load as a sum of …

investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization … documented phenomenon both in this study and in the cross-country literature on privatization; e.g. political ends in … privatization, influence in appointments, golden shares) as the most visible part of such collusion. Liberalization and multi …