This book makes a contribution to the formulation and implementation of production cost models for the modelling of liberalized electricity markets by addressing issues associated with the level of detail in the representation of the underlying power system, the accuracy of the results and the...

Strommärkte zeichnen sich durch eine sehr komplexe Strompreischarakteristik aus, die besondere Anforderungen an das Risikomanagement von Energiekonzernen stellt. Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Preismodellierung sowie Derivatebewertung im Strommarkt. Kernpunkte sind dabei die...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Modellierung der Strompreisdynamik sowie der Derivatebewertung im Strommarkt. Es werden bisher noch nicht erfasste Eigenschaften der Strompreisdynamik, deren Auswirkungen auf die Derivatebewertung und Folgen für das Risikomanagement diskutiert...

Die Liberalisierung der Elektrizitätsmärkte in Europa hat zu einem deutlichen Strukturwandel der Energiewirtschaft geführt; Überkapazitäten und Wettbewerbsdruck bewirkten eine erhebliche Umorientierung in den Energieversorgungsunternehmen. Durch die zunehmende Liquidität des kurzfristigen...

The US electric utility industry is undergoing a period of fundamental change that has significant implications for Native American tribes. Although many details remain to be determined, the future electric power industry will be very different from that of the present. It is anticipated that...

This report analyzes developments in the electric utility industry using the tools of transaction cost economics. During the last thirty years, the tools of economic analysis have been substantially expanded--notably, Oliver Williamson, building on the insights of Coase and others, has made...

For the first time in many decades, consumers are being given a choice of who supplies their electric power and how that power is generated. One of these choices is to support electricity generation from more environmentally beneficial energy sources. The term green power generally refers to...

The electricity industry in the US today is at a crossroads. The restructuring debate going on in most regions has made it clear that the traditional model of vertically integrated firms serving defined franchise areas and regulated by state commissions may not be the pattern for the future. The...

The term ``transition costs`` describes the potential revenue shortfall (or welfare loss) a utility (or other actor) may experience through government-initiated deregulation of electricity generation. The potential for transition costs arises whenever a regulated industry is subject to...

This publication, Electric Trade in the US 1992 (ELECTRA), is the fourth in a series of reports on wholesale power transactions prepared by the Electric Data Systems Branch, Survey Management Division, Office of Coal, Nuclear, Electric and Alternate Fuels, Energy Information Administration...