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Transmission expansion in Argentina 5: the Regional Electricity Forum of Buenos Aires Province

Littlechild, S.C.; Ponzano, E.A. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007

This paper supplements analyses of Argentine transmission expansions at the federal level by looking at experience in Buenos Aires province. A Regional Electricity Forum of distribution companies has drawn up and begun to implement a ten-year transmission expansion plan. Contrary to previous...

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Substitution between Bundled and Unbundled Products after Deregulation in Electricity Generation

Berry, S. Keith - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 4, pp. 455-468

With partial electric utility deregulation, regulators will continue to regulate transmission and distribution (T&D) rates, while generation prices are unregulated and stochastic. Consumers will migrate between bundled and unbundled rate classes depending on individual rates of trade-off between...

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Better safe than sorry? Reliability policy in network industries

Aalbers, Rob; Shestalova, Victoria; Onderstal, Sander - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2004

This report develops a roadmap for reliability policy in network industries. Based on economic theory, we analyse the relationship between reliability and various types of government policy: privatisation, liberalisation, regulation, unbundling, and 'commitment policy'. We let government...

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Environmental Sustainability and Regulation: To-Down Versus Bottom-Up Regulation

Mariam, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

Environmental regulation can be broadly divided into those that follow the top-down and bottom-up approaches. The two approaches have similar objective with respect to environmental protection and sustainability. However, the success with which each approach achieves goals of environmental...

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Verteilung energiewendebedingter Netzkosten – allein eine Frage der Fairness?

Boche, Steffen; Elsenbast, Wolfgang; Nikogosian, Vigen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 97 (2017) 12, pp. 871-875

Um die Verteilung der Kosten der Energiewende wird eine intensive politische Debatte geführt. Diese beruht darauf, dass … ungerechte Lastenverteilung der Kosten der Energiewende gesehen. Dieser Artikel analysiert die Argumente im Kontext einer … transition ('Energiewende'). The discussion is mainly driven by the growing divergence of network tariffs among the federal …

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Keine Effizienzunterschiede zwischen öffentlichen und privaten Energieversorgungsunternehmen

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria; Seifert, Stefan; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 83 (2016) 20, pp. 448-453

The increase in municipal economic activity in the utilities sector frequently comes under scrutiny. It is presumed … that public utilities have less incentive to provide efficient service than private companies. This could result in … public and private utilities. This applies to both the competitively structured electricity retail sector and regulated …

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Intervenção regulatória nos setores de telecomunicações e elétrico em 2012 : um estudo de eventos com modelo de precificação multifatorial

Bragança, Gabriel Godofredo Fiuza de; Pessoa, Marcelo … - 2015

We analyze the effect of two 2012's regulatory measures in the Brazilian telecommunications and electricity markets. The first intervention was undertaken by the telecommunications regulatory agency (Anatel) in 18th of July and refers to the interruption of the sales of important...

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Verteilung energiewendebedingter Netzkosten : allein eine Frage der Fairness?

Boche, Steffen; Elsenbast, Wolfgang; Nikogosian, Vigen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 97 (2017) 12, pp. 871-875

Um die Verteilung der Kosten der Energiewende wird eine intensive politische Debatte geführt. Diese beruht darauf, dass … ungerechte Lastenverteilung der Kosten der Energiewende gesehen. Dieser Artikel analysiert die Argumente im Kontext einer … transition (“Energiewende”). The discussion is mainly driven by the growing divergence of network tariffs among the federal …

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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks

Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2018

We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to estimate the impact of incentives on cost reduction. We show theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) incur higher costs when subject to a lower-powered regulation mechanism. The...

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Incentive regulation : evidence from German electricity networks

Hellwig, Michael; Schober, Dominik; Cabral, Luís M. B. - 2019 - This version: January 29, 2019

We propose a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach to estimate the impact of incentives on cost reduction. We show theoretically, and estimate empirically, that German electricity distribution system operators (DSOs) pile up more costs in the year used to determine future prices when subject...

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