Should regulation of potentially competitive elements of network utilities be left with sector regulators or solely … more emphasis on making sector regulation consistent with competition law. The paper discusses the appropriateness of the …

the potential for cost efficiency improvement in the networks through incentive regulation aided by benchmarking and … between investments and cost efficiency in the context of incentive regulation with ex-post regulatory treatment of … impact efficiency” as a revenue-neutral efficiency effect of investment under incentive regulation which makes a firm …

framework in the UK and the service quality regulation in Italy provide good examples of application of output-based regulation …Incentive regulation needs to adapt to the emerging changes in the operating environment of the electricity networks … and take into account the security of these. This paper assesses the current issues and options in economic regulation of …

The incentive regulation of costs related to physical and cyber security in electricity networks is an important but … regulation in a benchmarking framework. The relevant concerns and limitations associated with network security costs accounting …

benchmarking analyses for help in setting price controls within incentive regulation. We present an international benchmarking … and data issues encountered in the use of international benchmarking for utility regulation. The study examines the effect …

Incentive regulation for networks has been an important part of the reform agenda in a number of countries. As part of …

increasing number of countries are also adopting incentive regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly … activities - transmission and distribution. Incentive regulation almost invariably involves benchmarking or comparison of actual … vs. some reference performance. This paper reviews the main approaches to incentive regulation and discusses various …

significant suggestions for improvement to the current system of network regulation. First, they suggest that the RPI-X system … investments. Second, future regulation should involve more negotiated regulation involving agreements between network owners and …

performance of their regulation regime and national firms with those of other countries. The relative performance of frontier … firms is important as these may be subject to lax regulation and could constitute benchmarks for regulation of other firms … distribution utilities have been subject to yardstick regulation since 1990 and 1996 respectively. In this paper we present an …

Quality of service has emerged as an important issue in post-reform regulation of electricity distribution networks …