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Final Draft Strategic Marketing Plan.
United States. Bonneville Power Administration. - 2009
The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) has developed a marketing plan to define how BPA can be viable and competitive in the future, a result important to BPA`s customers and constituents. The Marketing Plan represents the preferred customer outcomes, marketplace achievements, and competitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436981
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Electricity market players subgroup report
Borison, A. - 2008
The purpose of this study is to examine competition in the electric power industry from an ``industrial organization … varieties of electric power competition, organized along two dimensions: producer competition and consumer competition. Chapters … 5 and 6 identify the issues raised by competition along the two dimensions. These issues include efficiency, equity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436990
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The role of analytical models: Issues and frontiers
Blair, P. - 2008
A number of modeling attempts to analyze the implications of increasing competition in the electric power industry … producers, were not considered. More recently in the course of the policy debate over increasing competition, a number of models … interpret altemative scenarios or other means of increasing competition in the electric power industry in the terms of existing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436991
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The New Hampshire retail competition pilot program and the role of green marketing
Holt, E.A.; Fang, J.M. - 2009
Most states in the US are involved in electric industry restructuring, from considering the pros and cons in regulatory dockets to implementing legislative mandates for full restructuring and retail access for all consumers. Several states and utilities have initiated pilot programs in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437017
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Electricity distribution industry restructuring, electrification, and competition in South Africa
Galen, P.S. - 2009
This paper reviews the status of the South African electricity supply industry (ESI) and proposals for reorienting and restructuring it. South Africa has been intensely examining its ESI for more than 4 years in an effort to determine whether and how it should be restructured to best support the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437065
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Effect of market structure on international coal trade
Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009
of steam-coal trade of several deviations from the simple competitive model. In addition to perfect competition, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437106
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Market failures, consumer preferences, and transaction costs inenergy efficiency purchase decisions
Sathaye, Jayant; Murtishaw, Scott - 2008
Several factors limit the energy savings potential and increase the costs of energy-efficient technologies to consumers. These factors may usefully be placed into two categories; one category is what economists would define as market failures and the other is related to consumer preferences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437186
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Geography-based structural analysis of the Internet
Kasiviswanathan, Shiva; Eidenbenz, Stephan; Yan, Guanhua - 2011
In this paper, we study some geographic aspects of the Internet. We base our analysis on a large set of geolocated IP hop-level session data (including about 300,000 backbone routers, 150 million end hosts, and 1 billion sessions) that we synthesized from a variety of different input sources...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437239
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Will competition hurt electricity consumers in the Pacific Northwest
Hadley, S.; Hirst, E. - 2009
A computer model was developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to analyze the electricity production, costs, and prices for two geographical regions for a single year. Bulk-power trading is allowed between the two regions and market clearing prices are determined based on marginal costs. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437282
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Economic-efficiency considerations in restructuring electric markets
Hill, L.J. - 2009
have the lowest price possible. In the long run, competition promotes innovation and lower costs. The physical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437344