Chan, H. Ron; Fell, Harrison; Lange, Ian A.; Li, Shanjun - 2013
We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area …, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … without. Our analysis finds that restructuring led to: (1) a two percent improvement in fuel efficiency for IOs, (2) a ten …