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Two price zones for the German electricity market : market implications and distributional effects

Egerer, Jonas; Weibezahn, Jens; Hermann, Hauke - 2015

We discuss the implications of two price zones, i.e. one northern and southern bidding area, on the German electricity market. In the northern zone, continuous capacity additions with low variable costs cause large regional supply surpluses in the market dispatch while conventional capacity...

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A vision of the European energy future? : the impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake

Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Waterson, Michael - 2014

The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...

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Legally Separated Joint Ownership of Bidder and Auctioneer : Illustrated by the Partial Deregulation of the EU Electricity Markets

Van Koten, Silvester - 2008

In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity generators and of transmission, hence VIU-owned or allied generators often are bidders in auctions for VIU-owned transmission. In Van Koten (2006) I show that welfare suffers and the...

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When Competition Plays Clean : How Electricity Market Liberalization Facilitated State-level Climate Policies in the United States

Lee, Nathan - 2019

Why do some governments adopt policies to mitigate climate change while others do not? In this study, I illustrate the importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that...

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Who Pays for Retail Electric Deregulation? : Evidence of Cross-Subsidization from Complete Bill Data

Dormady, Noah - 2019

Retail electric deregulation has been identified in the literature to have favorable price impacts to businesses and … analysis of the effect of retail deregulation on total electric bills in Ohio. The results identify two main sources of cross …

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Small Systems, Big Targets : Power Sector Reforms and Renewable Energy Development in Small Electricity Systems

Nepal, Rabindra - 2017

The dominant focus of much policy attention of late has been on the suitability of electricity market reform carried out under the ‘standard' or prescriptive approach – the end point of which is market liberalization – for the integration of intermittent renewables. There is now a growing...

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Regulated Electricity Retailing in Chile

Galetovic, Alexander - 2017

While some countries have unbundled distribution and retailing, skeptics argue that the physical attributes of electricity make retailers redundant. Instead, it is claimed that passive pass through of wholesale prices plus regulate charges for transmission and distribution success for customers...

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Two Price Zones for the German Electricity Market : Market Implications and Distributional Effects

Egerer, Jonas - 2015

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Product Market Competition and Upstream Innovation : Theory and Evidence from the US Electricity Market Deregulation

Sanyal, Paroma - 2015

organizational structure. Second, we use the US electricity deregulation in the 1990's to test the model. Using patents as a metric … for innovation, we identify two channels through which the effects of deregulation are transmitted to innovation: (a) the … appropriation effect which has decreased innovation by 19.5 percent after deregulation, and (b) the competition effect which has …

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Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry

Steiner, Faye - 2000

This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...

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