(SPDEM) and on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). I discuss issues relevant for undertaking an … evaluation such regulations. I argue that, for market performance, more information is not always better; indeed, more … information may undermine market performance by facilitating behaviour that is either not cost efficient or aims at exercising …

success has occurred mostly under a state-owned utility, Electricity Vietnam. Select market-oriented reforms to date have also …. Gradual reforms offer an opportunity to learn by doing; yet, the sequence of reforms matters. Introducing market mechanisms … ahead of other elements may limit the market effectiveness and even make subsequent reform steps more difficult …

Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power …

electricity market models. First the SD method is classified within the wide field of electricity market modeling. Then all … publications in the field of SD energy market modeling. Some tendencies could be identified: Firstly SD models are more and more … such as new markets designs or new market components and their interdependencies. …

Morocco charted its own distinctive path of power sector reform. It selectively introduced private sector participation … through this selective approach to reform have come somewhat at the expense of the financial viability of the incumbent …

The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies … pressure in 2014 when energy subsidies reached 6.8 percent of gross domestic product. Since then, the reform process has been … revived based on new electricity, gas, and renewable energy laws; price and subsidy adjustments; structural reforms with a …

The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage … National Power Corporation extremely burdensome, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was passed in 2001. This was intended … at the wholesale and retail levels. Although the implementation of the full reform program took longer than originally …