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The Electricity Sector in FYR Macedonia
Tieman, Alexander F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper describes the current state of the Macedonian electricity sector. It looks at ongoing structural changes …, driven by the gradual adoption of the EU acquis on energy, and comes up with estimates for electricity subsidies. It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839339
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Does Electricity (and Heat) Network Regulation have anything to learn from Fixed Line Telecoms?
Pollitt, M.G. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009
electricity (and by implication heat) network regulation. We do this in the context of Ofgem’s RPIX@ 20 Review of energy … then apply the lessons to electricity networks in the context of a possible increase in distributed generation directly … several implications of this for the regulation of electricity and heat networks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078999
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Welfare and Competition Effects of Electricity Interconnection between Great Britain and Ireland
Valeri, Laura Malaguzzi - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008
This study analyzes the effects of additional interconnection on welfare and competition in the Irish electricity … market. I simulate the wholesale electricity markets of Great Britain and the island of Ireland for 2005. I find that in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087662
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Maintenance
Leightner, Jonathan E. - In: Journal of Applied Economics IV (2001) May, pp. 107-124
Maintenance and production interact. The ideal way of accounting for this interaction, when estimating production functions, is by picking the temporal length of observations so that they embed integer multiples of the production—maintenance cycles for all inputs. In contrast to labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260544
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Power outages and economic growth in Africa
Andersen, Thomas Barnebeck; Dalgaard, Carl-Johan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2012
This paper estimates the total effect of power outages on economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1995-2007. Outages are instrumented using a satellite-based measure of lightning density. As suggested by Henderson et al. (2011), we also combine Penn World Tables GDP data with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651246
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Energy Efficiency Resource Standards: Economics and Policy
Brennan, Timothy J.; Palmer, Karen - 2012
Twenty states in the United States have adopted energy efficiency resource standards (EERS) that specify absolute or per¬centage reductions in energy use relative to business as usual. We examine how an EERS compares to policies oriented to meeting objectives, such as reducing greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651749
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Putting a Floor on Energy Savings: Comparing State Energy Efficiency Resource Standards
Palmer, Karen; Grausz, Samuel; Beasley, Blair; Brennan, Tim - 2012
achieve quantitative goals for reducing energy use by a certain year. EERS policies generally apply to electricity and natural … gas sales and electricity peak demand, though they also cover other energy sources in Europe. Our study aggregates … information about the requirements of existing EERS policies for electricity sales in the United States. We convert quantitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651750
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Capacity to Compete: Recent Trends in Access Regimes in Electricity and Natural Gas Networks
Hauteclocque, Adrien de; Talus, Kim - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2011
access regime in the electricity and gas sectors. We find strong similarities for two otherwise very different sectors, as … well as an influence of the electricity regime on the gas regime. The sector-specific regulatory regime, supported by the … slightly different results in practice. In electricity, the development of market coupling initiatives creates new regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294800
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The costs of electricity systems with a high share of fluctuating renewables - a stochastic investment and dispatch optimization model for Europe
Nagl, Stephan; Fürsch, Michaela; Lindenberger, Dietmar - Energiewirtschaftliches Institut (EWI), Universität zu … - 2012
Renewable energies are meant to produce a large share of the future electricity demand. However, the availability of … optimizing the future electricity mix. <p>In this article we analyze the impact of the stochastic availability of wind and solar … model to the European electricity market. The model considers stochastic feed-in structures and full load hours of wind and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009392980
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Health Impacts of Power-Exporting Plants in Northern Mexico
Blackman, Allen; Chandru, Santosh; Mendoza-Dominguez, … - 2012
in electricity demand. In response, American energy multinationals have built power plants just south of the border that … export most of their electricity to the United States. This development has stirred considerable controversy because these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395773