particularly favorable option due to the current overcapacities, resultant low wholesale prices, and high electricity exports …

, raised the question of how open access and greater competition in wholesale electricity markets might affect the environment … desired result of lower electricity prices, many observers suggested that an increase in electricity demand would lead to more … choice, including the opportunity for customers to willingly select “green electricity.” In this paper we review the …

China's electricity sector has experienced substantial efficiency improvement during the last one and a half decades …

Storm-related service outages in electricity and telecommunications have created public controversies regarding the …

the potential of harnessing large amounts of renewable electricity, but also concerns about the implementation in largely … electricity generators in France, Germany, and Poland, and the consumers in low-price countries, e.g. Norway and Sweden. Merchant …

The European Commission is introducing new regulations on submission and publication of data in electricity markets … immediacy. I conclude that to achieve the aims of efficiently functioning wholesale electricity markets, fair and non …-discriminatory access to data and a coherent and consistent view of the European wholesale electricity market, it does not seem advisable to …

The cliché in the electricity sector, the “cheapest power plant is the one we don’t build,” seems to neglect the … monopsony prices. Subsidizing energy efficiency to reduce electricity demand at the margin can solve that problem, if energy … efficiency and electricity use are substitutes. We may not observe these effects if the regulator can set price as well as …

This paper applies the concept of regulatory threat to analyse the electricity supply industry in Germany, where in …-price) discrimination against their parties. The conceptual framework appears to explain developments in the German electricity sector …