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Time of day (TOD) rates are a commonly used method for peak load pricing of many services. Such services as … will use form of TOD pricing. The model presented here provides a method for estimating TOD substitution without the need …
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the main cause of under-pricing, although inflation in a period of excess capacity can amplify such under-pricing. It … recognised in the regulated pricing structure. …
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The absence of one broadly accepted design template for liberalised electricity markets induces regulatory competition and institutional diversity. Focussing on continental Europe and the USA, this analysis explores how agents and structures accelerate or impede the move to one standard market...
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deregulation. At the core of deregulation processes, not only in the EU, but also in the US, lies the replacement of old …, along with half-implemented EU deregulation directives, have led to specifically re-regulated utility markets. The new forms … of regulation applied in the process of deregulation have served only to preserve the market protection of former state …
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, we study the impact of this deregulation reform on the operational efficiency for a balanced panel of 34 large power …
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Residential consumers remain reluctant to choose new electricity suppliers. Even the most successful jurisdictions, four U.S. states and other countries, have had to adopt extensive consumer education procedures that serve largely to confirm that choosing electricity suppliers is daunting....
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … question of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …
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This paper provides an overview of the development of electric power transmission access, pricing and investment …-liberalisation transmission access and pricing policies, the prevailing basic transmission access and pricing rules contained in Orders 888 and … Standard Market Design (SMD) proposal. PJM’s market rules and transmission pricing, planning and investment policies are …
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Widespread concern over transmission capacity requires theoretical support to infer inadequacy from observed trends indicating reductions in the ratio of transmission to generation capacity over time. If integrated utilities had been regulated with allowed returns exceeding capital costs,...
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This study analyzes the interaction of agency problems in public policy and of agency problems inside the firm: it investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization were designed to promote a disperse ownership and...
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