Net-metering is commonly known as a practice by which owners of distributed generation (DG) units may offset their electricity consumption from the grid with local generation. The increasing number of prosumers (consumers that both produce and consume electricity) with solar photovoltaic (PV)...

We provide an efficiency justification for the imposition of the uniform pricing constraint in universal service obligations (USO), where USO are defined as a set of constraints imposed on firms belonging to a network industry. In addition to the uniform pricing (UP) constraint, which is an...

This paper aims to give some remarks about the regulatory choices in Italy on the main network industries, former public monopolies (telecommunications, transport, water, energy). In particular, it focuses on the main legislative actions taken by the current Italian Government and provides some...

The European Commission Energy Green Paper of 2006 detects three targets to reach: competitiveness, security of supply and sustainability. It has been the first step about the European energy policy, which has traditionally been focused on the development of an open and competitive energy...