Liberalisation has had a marked effect on innovative activities in the electricity industry. R&D and patenting … activities are generally regarded respectively as innovative inputs to and outputs from technological progress. Electricity … activity in the UK electricity sector. The results indicate that electricity related patents in non-nuclear and renewable …

As developing countries seek to improve their economic prospects, electricity reform has been widely viewed as a … electricity reform in India, giving special regard to its political economy and regional diversity. It assesses how electricity … reform in India has affected key economic variables that determine sectoral efficiency, prices and investment flows. We use …

incentive regulation of electricity distribution companies, regulators throughout Europe have started regulating quality of …-incorporated regulation. We find that the external cost for quality has not played a major role in Norwegian electricity distribution. …

paper examines the effects of the application of norm models within an ex-post incentive regulation of electricity … incentives and reduce their average prices. However, investor-owned utilities that perform better than their norm models behave … strategically and increase their prices. We also find that investor-owned utilities reduce (inflate) their average cost if they …

Liberalisation of generation and supply activities in the electricity sectors is often followed by regulatory reform of … behaviour by firms. We also present a survey of issues encountered by electricity regulators. We then use the Data Envelopment …

There is a growing concern over our reliance on conventional electricity sources and their long-term environmental … to tackle these issues. However, informed academic analysis and policy debates on the future of electricity systems must … forthcoming book Future Electricity Technologies and Systems. The book comprises contributions from leading experts in their …

The world-wide electricity sector reforms have led to a search for alternative and innovative approaches to regulation … to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly electricity networks. A number of countries have used incentive … regulation models based on efficiency benchmarking of the electricity network utilities. While most regulators have opted adopted …

The energy market liberalisation process in Europe is increasingly focused on electricity market integration and … related cross border issues. This signals that the liberalisation of national electricity markets is now closer to the long …-term objective of a single European energy market. The interface between the national electricity markets requires physical …