Long-term contracts for electricity can counter market power and reduce prices in short-term markets. If electricity …? This paper combines a model of electricity retailing and a Cournot model of competition in the wholesale markets to …

The main Nordic residential electricity markets (Norway, Sweden and Finland) effectively opened to retail competition …

competitive energy supplier. Over 200 communities have voted to do this for electricity. By 2004 residential switching reached 69 …

Europe is liberalising electricity in accordance with the European Commission’s Electricity Directives. Different … countries have responded differently, notably in the extent of restructuring, treatment of mergers, market power, and vertical … Emissions Trading system could further transform the electricity industry but may be hampered by slow progress in liberalising …

The electricity supply industry is highly capital-intensive, whose success depends critically upon the management of …

Argentina was one of the first countries in the world to implement a comprehensive reform of its electricity sector in … the generation, transmission and distribution sectors, as well as the economic regulation of electricity and the general …

In December 1990, the twelve regional electricity companies responsible for the distribution and supply of electricity …

Chile was the first country in the world to implement a comprehensive reform of its electricity sector in the recent … economic regulation of electricity and the general institutional environment favourable to reform. We note that while the … for the private ownership and operation of the electricity industry. …