This report provides an overview of the main competition and regulatory issues in the Spanish gas and electricity markets, setting them in the broader context of the liberalisation of the European energy market. Public policy in energy markets needs to reconcile a number of different objectives,...

Brazil holds great promise for natural gas development: a large population underpinning rising energy demand; sizeable reserves, and a market hungry for diversification of energy sources. While great progress has been achieved in the last 30 years in the development of natural gas production,...

This document (of 418 pages) comprises the proceedings of an OECD roundtable on promoting competition in the natural gas industry, held in February 2000. Natural gas is a key source of energy for OECD countries, both in its own right and as an input into the production of electricity. Regulatory...