L'ouverture à la concurrence des marchés européens de l'électricité et du gaz - dont la deuxième étape commence le Ier juillet - intéresse surtout les grosses et moyennes entreprises, pour lesquelles l'achat d'énergie devient une source potentielle de réduction des coûts. En ce qui...

Sur la demande de l’Union française d’électricité (UFE), Jan Horst Keppler, Professeur d’économie à l’Université Paris - Dauphine, et Régis Bourbonnais, Maître de conférences à l’Université Paris - Dauphine et spécialiste en économétrie, ont entrepris une série de tests...

This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...

Brazil's energy sector has undergone rapid changes over the last several years. A growing economy and increasing power demand has spurred a complete restructuring of the wholesale power market and government privatization, adding uncertainty to the market. After a severe crisis, Lula’s...

The debate over a common European energy policy, its necessity and its establishment has been going on for a number of decades. The discussions have been recently brought back into the spotlight by the evolution of energy market fundamentals and the taking into account of environmental...

This paper aims to compare how two countries are facing the challenges of energy security of supply. Mexico, a member of NAFTA and a neighbour of the United States, has oil resources and is thinking how to answer to the increasing energy demand. France, one of the 27 member states of the...