-based regulation of access charges for electricity grids enhances competition in the downstream-market. The paper shows that the …

network industries like telecommunications, electricity and railways and has sparked off a controversy in the literature. The …. The insights are applied to the electricity supply industry in Germany. …

The European Commission is introducing new regulations on submission and publication of data in electricity markets … (SPDEM) and on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). I discuss issues relevant for undertaking an … immediacy. I conclude that to achieve the aims of efficiently functioning wholesale electricity markets, fair and non …

Subsidies to renewable energy are costly and contentious. We estimate the reduction in prices that follows from the … subsidized entry of wind power in the Nordic electricity market. A relatively small-scale entry of renewables leads to a large … the total electricity market expenditures. The subsidies generate net gains to consumers. We develop an approach to …

This paper analyses technical efficiency of local electricity distribution in Italy (1994, 1996) by using both …-sectional data were examined with respect to:(a) ENEL - the Italian electricity monopolist;(b) municipal authorities (MUNIs), i ….e. town-based electric utilities which sometimes hold franchises for electricity distribution within city limits …

We employ a detailed two-stage model to simulate the operation of the Central Eastern European electricity market and …

the future market design in the energy sector. Since current sources of reactive power are primarily fossil-fuel power … plants which will not be available in a carbon neutral energy system, reactive power will be sources from distributed assets … in the electricity networks. The German regulator has proposed new rules for reactive power procurement, which are based …

underlined with lessons from (European) electricity and railways. …