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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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Energy Systems Integration : implications for public policy

Cambini, Carlo; Congiu, Raffaele; Jamasb, Tooraj; … - 2020

Energy Systems Integration (ESI) is an emerging paradigm and at the centre of the EU energy debate. ESI takes a holistic view of the electricity, gas and heat sectors to deliver a clean, reliable and affordable energy system. By identifying and exploiting the synergies within and between the...

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Cross-border electricity interconnectors in the EU : the status quo

Brunekreeft, Gert; Meyer, Roland - 2018

policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …

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Monopoly regulation through cost-based revenue caps employing a base year approach

Gräper, Gerrit; Mankat, Fabian - 2024

costs in a so-called base year. Such regulation is employed, among others, to govern electricity distribution operators in …. A connected set of price caps exists so that a hybrid regulation consisting of any element in this set and the cost …

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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries: The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation

Almeida, Edmar Fagundes de; Mulder, Nanno - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...

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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 … each approach differ. The present study will explore the implication of environmental regulation to sustainability, costs …

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Does regulatory independence translate into a higher degree of liberalization? : evidence from EU energy regulators

Lindemann, Henrik - 2015

Independent regulatory authorities are a basic prerequisite for a successful liberalization process. However, contrary to what is expected, both graphical analyses and OLS regressions for a small sample of electricity and gas regulators operating in 16 European countries reveal a negative...

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Beta Estimation in the European Network Regulation Context : What Matters, What Doesn’t, What Is Indispensable

Bazhutov, Dmitry; Betzer, André; Stehle, Richard - 2021

regulation. Our most important conclusions are: (1) Sudden beta increases or decreases occur that often last only short periods …

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Restructuring, Ownership and Efficiency: The Case of Labor in Electricity Generation

Shanefelter, Jennifer K. - 2008

tighter regulation. Using data from the electricity industry, this analysis considers the total effect of restructuring on one …

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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - 2013

Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel …-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a … under cost-of-service regulation. I then show that the drop in the price of coal is associated with a reallocation of …

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