We examine customers` time-of-use (TOU) demand for electricity and their choice between standard and TOU rate schedules …

U.S. electricity system being called ''antiquated'' and catalyzed discussions about modernizing the grid. Industry …-quality events) cost U.S. electricity consumers? Accurately estimating this cost will help assess the potential benefits of ….S. electricity consumers of power interruptions and power-quality events (referred to collectively as ''reliability events''). The …

This paper examines the extent to which electricity supply constraints could affect sectoral specialization. For this …-adjusted electricity capacity drives sectoral specialization in several sectors. Among them, electrical equipment, transport equipment …-adjusted electricity capacity. Furthermore, our dynamic panel estimation reveals that the effects of Ricardian technological differences …

This paper describes the current state of the Macedonian electricity sector. It looks at ongoing structural changes …, driven by the gradual adoption of the EU acquis on energy, and comes up with estimates for electricity subsidies. It …

of these developments still remains limited. Evidence on the behavior of this market is scarce and sketchy. The … underlying economic principles that are shaping the market have not clearly been articulated. In this report we examine the … economics of competitive bidding both empirically and analytically. Previous study of this market has focused on the evaluation …

The electricity industry in the US today is at a crossroads. The restructuring debate going on in most regions has made … the organization of the industry. This paper addresses electricity restructuring from the perspective of bulk power … markets. The authors focus attention on the organization of electricity trade and the various ways it has been and might be …

market structure, such as the existence of independent power producers or wheeling transactions between customers and utility … modeling frameworks, to gain perspective using such models on how the different market players would interact, and to predict … how electricity prices and other indicators of industry behavior might evolve under the altemative scenarios. …

CommAspen is a new agent-based model for simulating the interdependent effects of market decisions and disruptions in …