competitive energy supplier. Over 200 communities have voted to do this for electricity. By 2004 residential switching reached 69 … Stabilization Plans holding incumbent utility prices below cost since 2006. In the Ohio gas sector, rate regulation has not …

Efficiency and productivity analysis is a central concept in incentive-based regulation of network utilities. However … adjustment of capital stock or production capacity, is problematic under incentive regulation with ex-post regulatory treatment …, regulated revenue. This paper analyses the dynamic behaviour of inefficiency for a balanced panel of 128 Norwegian electricity …

In order to achieve overall economic efficiency, incentive regulation of electricity distribution utilities must … signals to generation and load connected to the network. This paper is concerned with the latter aspect of regulation. The …

issues and lessons for best practice implementation of benchmarking in electricity regulation. …Since the early 1980’s, many countries have implemented electricity sector reform, many of which have bundled … increasing number of countries are also adopting incentive regulation to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly …

This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry …. Investor-owned utility plants in states that restructured their wholesale electricity markets had the largest reductions in …

unbundling) of the electricity transmission system operators in Germany. The study relies on the Residual Supply Index for its …This paper presents a social cost benefit analysis of ownership unbundling (as compared to legal und functional … effect of unbundling on capacity are of crucial importance. Overall, for the base-case, the net weighted discounted social …

Driven by fear of underinvestment in network assets, merchant investment in electricity transmission networks (MTI) is …

The German energy industries will be subjected to regulation of network access enforced by a sector-specific regulator …. Whereas the gas industry broke the regime of negotiated third party access, in electricity nTPA ‘worked’, although it clearly … resulted in a margin squeeze. The government currently discusses whether to use rate-of-return or incentive regulation, to …

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 … competition law approach for telecoms and electricity. Post-modern utilities like telecoms, in which facilities-based competition …