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Electricity markets are prone to the abuse of market power. Several US markets employ algorithms to monitor and …
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of the electricity market in the US as our case study, we find support for our theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we …
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major impediment to higher RES penetration often lies in the historically grown structures of a country's electricity sector … both reliable and affordable electricity. However, this focus on only two of the three horns of the energy trilemma, namely …-in into a fossil fuel future. In the last decades, several other countries have successfully restructured their electricity …
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. Using a combined model for dispatch, transmission, and investment, three different investment options are considered …, including gas-fired power plants, pumped hydro storage, and transmission lines. We find that geographically optimized power …, storage and transmission requirements significantly increase. In an alternative scenario with larger investments into storage …
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This paper offers an updated description of the macroeconomic and sectoral significance of PPPs in Europe, without assessing PPPs from a normative perspective. It shows that, over the past fifteen years, more than one thousand PPP contracts have been signed in the EU, representing a capital...
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This paper is one of the limited studies to investigate rebound effects in sectoral electricity consumption and the … electricity consumption from 9.2 MWh per capita in 2010 to 8.6 MWh per capita in 2015. However, following a significant decline … since 2010, electricity consumption in the main New Zealand sectors is increasing. Energy conservation could play an …
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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of liquidity in the German intraday market for electricity …
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The Nigerian power sector reform is necessitated by the chronic poor performance of the sector and has as its compass the 2005 Electric Power Sector Reform Act and the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform 2010. Implementing reform has resulted in significant progress that includes unbundling and...
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Ueber das Fuer und Wider einer Foerderung Erneuerbarer Energien mittels spezifischer Foerderinstrumente wie dem EEG sowie ueber die bestmoegliche Ausgestaltung dieser Instrumente sind in den letzten Jahren viele sowohl praxisorientierte als auch wissenschaftliche Debatten gefuehrt worden. Dabei...
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the distributional consequences inherent in the pricing strategy of basic goods and services, such as electricity. However …, the effectiveness of the electricity tariff as a redistribution device is questionable in the presence of a progressive … model predicts that electricity prices should be subsidised in the presence of purely income redistribution concerns, we …
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