Russian Abstract: К трансграничной инфраструктуре относятся объекты, пространственно разделенные границей двух или более государств. В условиях интенсификации...

The setting of public utility prices involves balancing various competing government policy objectives, from equity concerns to ensuring the financial sustainability of providers and balancing public finances. In practice, public utility pricing often departs significantly from government...

Italian Abstract: La qualità dell’approvvigionamento energetico costituisce un importante fattore di competitività per le imprese e di benessere per le famiglie. Analizzando i divari sul territorio italiano nella continuità della fornitura elettrica, il lavoro mostra come, in media per...

This paper examines the impact of access to electricity on households' non-farm business ownership and off-farm income share, considering the role of other necessary infrastructural facilities. The study uses household level panel data from the Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey combined with...

Electric power is so vital to both our economic and personal wellbeing that the erstwhile state policy in most of the developing countries, including India, had vested the power industry in the hands of the state as a promotional agency for subsidized supply. However, with the onset of the...

This study evaluates a proposed investment in wind power generation using real options from the regulatory framework applicable to the German market (Europe's largest producer of renewable energy). For this evaluation, we have modelled the primary uncertainties affecting the project and we have...

Electricity and water are often subsidized in developing countries to increase their affordability for low-income households. Ideally, such subsidies would create sufficient demand in poor neighborhoods to encourage private investment in their infrastructure. Instead, many regions receiving...

Este estudio tiene por objeto evaluar el sistema de subsidios para servicios públicos en Colombia. Con base en la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida del DANE y de la información de tarifas disponible, se caracterizan los esquemas de subsidios vigentes para los servicios de electricidad, telefonía...

In India, the supply of electricity relies heavily on a virtually bankrupt and sometimes corrupt system of state electricity boards (SEBs), which have failed to bring electricity to approximately 40% of rural households. High subsidy levels to agriculture and domestic customers and widespread...

We estimate the development effects of electrification across Brazil over the period 1960-2000. We simulate a time series of hypothetical electricity grids for Brazil for the period 1960-2000 that show how the grid would have evolved had infrastructure investments been made based solely on...