Liberalisation of generation and supply activities in the electricity sectors is often followed by regulatory reform of … behaviour by firms. We also present a survey of issues encountered by electricity regulators. We then use the Data Envelopment …

The world-wide electricity sector reforms have led to a search for alternative and innovative approaches to regulation … to promote efficiency improvement in the natural monopoly electricity networks. A number of countries have used incentive … regulation models based on efficiency benchmarking of the electricity network utilities. While most regulators have opted adopted …

The energy market liberalisation process in Europe is increasingly focused on electricity market integration and … related cross border issues. This signals that the liberalisation of national electricity markets is now closer to the long …-term objective of a single European energy market. The interface between the national electricity markets requires physical …

This paper reviews the recent experience of the UK electricity distribution sector under incentive regulation. The UK … the successes of this period in reducing costs, prices and energy losses while maintaining quality of service. We also …

In order to achieve overall economic efficiency, incentive regulation of electricity distribution utilities must …

Since the early 1980’s, many countries have implemented electricity sector reform, many of which have bundled … countries. Our survey finds a variety of methods used by the electricity regulators although with a notable preference for the … issues and lessons for best practice implementation of benchmarking in electricity regulation. …

Since the early 1990s, substantial resources and effort have been spent on implementing market-oriented electricity … reform in developing countries. Important sectoral, economic, and social dimensions are involved in electricity reform, but … indicators as a first step towards filling this gap and developing a coherent framework for studying electricity reform in …

Efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks is often limited to technical or cost efficiency measures …

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on electricity reform in developing countries. We find that country …