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 …

The next years should bring about a rapid transformation of the electricity sector towards high levels of renewable …, and keeping the costs down in distribution networks. Network unbundling on the other hand is essential for competition in … the liberalized electricity industry. It forces independence of the networks and thereby eliminates concern that incumbent …

whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation …A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … well as unbundling requirements of infrastructure and transport services. The debate focuses firstly on the question …

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 …

Theory and empirics suggest that by curbing competition, incumbent electricity companies which used to be and here are …-reducing, EU law requires unbundling (separation) of the VIU networks. However, the EU allows its member states the choice between … incomplete (legal) and complete (ownership) unbundling. There is tantalizing anecdotal evidence that VIUs have tried to influence …