-efficient production level for an incentive regulation of distribution system operators (DSOs). With nearly 900 DSOs operating in the … German electricity sector, of which 200 subject to incentive regulation, the issue of heterogeneity of DSOs has to be …

plans to implement revenue cap regulation together with yardstick competition. Revenue cap regulation could bear the ratchet … of costs he revealed to be possible for him to reach. The ratchet effect could be mitigated by yardstick competition at … ratchet effect and the mitigating influence that yardstick competition has on it. …