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conjunctionwith the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in thetelecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …
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Deregulation of the electricity sector has resulted in conflict between the economic aims of creating competitive …
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The main Nordic residential electricity markets (Norway, Sweden and Finland) effectively opened to retail competition … outcomes that customers prefer. Without retail competition, it is not clear how regulation will replicate this aspect of the …
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supplanting the role of regulation. Revised calculations suggest that the benefits of UK electricity privatisation were higher …The ‘standard model’ of electricity reform has been refined in many countries but not extended to others. Government is … been less customer switching in some residential electricity markets. There has been significant development of fixed price …
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A summary is given of research evaluating the economic effects of existing and prospective federal policies governing intercity and international freight and passenger transportation enterprises in the economy of the United States. The analysis encompasses all modes of transportation, including...
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In order to examine the feasibility of an intercity freight pipeline, it was necessary to develop cost equations for various competing transportation modes. This volume presents cost-estimating equations for rail carload, trailer-on-flatcar, truck, and freight pipeline. Section A presents...
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Throughout the United States, there is an accelerating abandonment of redundant and/or unprofitable light-density railroad lines. This abandonment can be economically harmful to both the shippers and the communities that were previously served. Although greater dependence upon truck...
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) are two electricity intensive technology trends in the Paper and Steel industries, respectively. This paper presents the … estimates of the impact of TMP and EAF on electricity intensities, improves the estimates of the other price coefficients, and … yields a more believable long run electricity forecast. 6 refs., 1 fig. …
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This paper presents information on the Stochastic Energy Deployment System (SEDS) model. DOE and NREL are developing this new model, intended to address many of the shortcomings of the current suite of energy models. Once fully built, the salient qualities of SEDS will include full probabilistic...
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event the power plant is unable to economically produce electricity due to depletion, scaling or other problems. Such an …
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