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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the issues involved when introducing consumer choice into the power sector. Section 1 describes the approaches used by several countries to introduce tetail competition. Section 2 describes the forces that are pushing consumer choice and retail...
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the issues involved when introducing consumer choice into the power sector. Section 1 describes the approaches used by several countries to introduce tetail competition. Section 2 describes the forces that are pushing consumer choice and retail...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653389
public versus private provision. The results in this paper suggest that management of electricity firms by the private sector … leads to a significant improvement in the quality of the provision of electricity. These improvements in quality and supply … of electricity provision yield some efficiency gains in terms of the time allocation of the working labor force that can …
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Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...
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taken place in Chile since the late 1980s in the electricity sector. This sector was chosen because the privatization …. The paper also assesses how lessons learned in the reform of electricity were internalized in the design of the regulatory …
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In this technical paper, the author addresses pertinent issues that affect reform in the power sector and the status of current efforts. The objective of the paper is such: 1) It explains the difficulties in achieving a separation of the roles of the State in an environment in which it continues...
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-term scenario which describes the need to increase Coal Plants at a faster pace than overall electricity demand; (ii) a technical …
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growth. The paper argues that the key rationale for promoting renewable DG in LAC is to reduce the cost of electricity for a … assessed in the light of the experience of Denmark, which has the world's highest share of DG (over 50 percent of electricity …
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The general objective of this study is to provide an overview of fossil-fuel-based electric power technologies other than coal-fired technologies (coal-fired technologies are the subject of a specific guideline that has already been adopted by the IDB) and an assessment of the relevance of these...
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This study compares the levelized cost of electricity generated with fossil fuels (including coal, natural gas, fuel … range of levelized cost of electricity for each technology. In addition, the study examined how the cost of electricity was … and levelized costs of electricity by repowering existing thermal power plants or switching high-carbon fuels to lower …
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