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Cross-border electricity interconnectors in the EU : the status quo
Brunekreeft, Gert; Meyer, Roland - 2018
An important goal of the European Commission is the promotion of the internal energy market (here specifically electricity), which requires sufficient and adequate cross-border interconnector capacity. However, cross-border interconnector capacity is scarce and, more importantly, the progress of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011797725
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Liberalisation of network industries : is electricity an exception to the rule?
Coppens, François; Vivet, David - 2004
) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards deregulation of such industries has been observed. This trend started with … the economies of scale have disappeared as a result of emerging new technologies. The successful deregulation in … substantial. Moreover, in addition to the deregulation process, the electricity sector is also subject to other changes such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003285766
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Market Power in the Nordic Wholesale Electricity Market: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Tangerås, Thomas - 2008
We review the recent empirical research concerning market power on the Nordic wholesale market for electricity, Nord Pool. There is no evidence of blatant and systematic exploitation of system level market power on Nord Pool. However, generation companies seem from time to time able to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320387
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Structure and stylized facts of a deregulated power market
Simonsen, Ingve; Weron, Rafal; Mo, Birger - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
Dramatic changes to the structure of the power sector have taken place over the past few decades. The major structural change being the introduction of competitive markets and power exchanges. In this paper, we conduct a detailed empirical study of the statistical properties of the Nordic power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790257
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Manipulated, Misled, Ignored, Abused: Residential Consumer Experience with Electric Deregulation in the United Kingdom
Jewell, Kevin - EconWPA - 2004
jumped after deregulation, and new types of complaints such as unauthorized switching of service (“slamming”) arose. Failure … existing customer base. Higher prices for low- income consumers: Since deregulation begain in 1990, there has been a marked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076594
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Market Power in the Nordic Wholesale Electricity Market: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence
Fridolfsson, Sven-Olof; Tangerås, Thomas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
We review the recent empirical research concerning market power on the Nordic wholesale market for electricity, Nord Pool. There is no evidence of blatant and systematic exploitation of system level market power on Nord Pool. However, generation companies seem from time to time able to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645390
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A vision of the European energy future? : the impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake
Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Waterson, Michael - 2014
The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...
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European energy industry shocks, corporate control and firms' value
García, John J.; Trillas, Francesc - UNIVERSIDAD EAFIT - 2013
The deregulation process in the EU electricity sector triggered strategic decisions that led to industry restructuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762822
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Deregulation, vertical unbundling and the performance of China's large coal-fired power plants
Zhao, Xiaoli; Ma, Chunbo - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 474-483
, we study the impact of this deregulation reform on the operational efficiency for a balanced panel of 34 large power …
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Behavior of the firm under rate-of-return regulation with two capital inputs
Ohler, Adrienne M. - In: The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 54 (2014) 1, pp. 61-69
Traditional electric utility companies face a trade-off between building generation facilities that utilize renewable energy (RE) and non-renewable energy (non-RE). The firm's input decision to build capacity for either source depends on several constraining factors, including input prices,...
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