Mit der Einführung einer staatlichen Regulierung der Energienetze wurde in Deutschland das gescheiterte Experiment eines verhandelten Netzzugangs beendet. Nach dem novellierten Energiewirtschaftsgesetz hat seit Mitte 2005 die Bundesnetzagentur die Aufgabe, für einen diskriminierungsfreien...

Since the 1990s, efficiency and benchmarking analysis has increasingly been used in network utilities research and regulation. A recurrent concern is the effect of environmental factors that are beyond the influence of firms (observable heterogeneity) and factors that are not identifiable...

Reaching the objective of universal access to modern energy services will require large investments in infrastructure in developing countries. An important part of funding will be provided in the form of development finance and its effectiveness in producing positive impacts is crucial for this...

This paper examines the role of electricity production from biomass with and without carbon capture and storage in sustaining low CO2 emission pathways to 2100. It quantifies the effect of the availability of biomass resources and technologies within a general equilibrium framework. Biomass-fed...

This study investigates the determinants of the great difference between winning bids and reserve prices in the transmission electricity sector in Brazil between 1999- 2010, through an econometric approach based on Heckman (1979) that considers the heterogeneous among the winner's and loser's...

Die vorliegende Arbeit beinhaltet im deskriptiven Teil Erläuterungen der wesentlichen netzentgeltrelevanten Regulierungskonzepte, eine Aufarbeitung der Marktgegebenheiten sowie eine ausführliche Beschreibung der deutschen Anreizregulierung von Energieversorgungsnetzen. Regulierte Erlöse...

This article presents an integrated electricity dispatch and load flow model with endogenous electricity generation capacity expansion. The target is to quantify generation capacity requirements for 2030 and where within Central Europe it shall be ideally placed when taking into account the...

Wholesale electricity markets use different market designs to handle congestion in the transmission network. We compare nodal, zonal and discriminatory pricing in general networks with transmission constraints and loop flows. We conclude that in large games with many producers who are allowed to...

We review the recent empirical research concerning market power on the Nordic wholesale market for electricity, Nord Pool. There is no evidence of blatant and systematic exploitation of system level market power on Nord Pool. However, generation companies seem from time to time able to take...