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This paper proposes an incentive mechanism for transmission expansion planning. The mechanism is a bilevel program. The upper level is a profit-maximizing transmission company (Transco) which expands its transmission system while endogenously predicts and influences the generation investment....
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Adequate extension of electricity transmission networks is required for integrating fluctuating renewable energy …
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will foster investments in the region's energy networks. …
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We analyze the treatment and impact of idiosyncratic or firm-specific risk in regulation. Regulatory authorities regularly ignore firm-specific characteristics, such as size or asset ages, implying different risk exposure in incentive regulation. In contrast, it is common to apply only a single...
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Due to the 3rd Energy Package of 2009 the regulation of European electricity transmission did change considerably. Before, cross-border electricity issues have been regulated by voluntary contractual agreements between Transmission System Operators. Now, the new-founded Agency for the...
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the majority of the distribution networks remained publicly owned, I use a synthetic control method to identify the … effects on price and labor efficiency. In comparison to their synthetic counterparts, I find that the acquired networks … bordering networks that were separately operated by each municipality prior to the acquisitions, I examine to what extent the …
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our research mainly relies on in-depth interviews with sector-experts from the German utilities. We will discuss both short-term changes and the long-term impact on competition in the...
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We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with both cost-plus and revenue-cap regulations. After reviewing international experiences on transmission investment, we first make a qualitative assessment of the overall German...
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” distribution networks. To this aim, regulation too must innovate, in order to promote innovative and additional infrastructural …
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