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been a shift from conventional rate of return regulation, and from earnings sharing schemes with profits caps, to prices …
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Relatively little is known about the practice of settlement rather than litigation in US utility regulation, or about … utility regulation generally, even outside the US context. …
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The world-wide electricity sector reforms have led to a search for alternative and innovative approaches to regulation … regulation models based on efficiency benchmarking of the electricity network utilities. While most regulators have opted adopted … used in regulation of distribution networks in Sweden and compares these with those of frontier-based benchmarking methods …
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are not simply a more efficient way of doing the same thing as regulation. Rather, they involve considerable innovation …
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This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry restructuring. Restructuring programs adopted by many U.S. states made utilities residual claimants to cost savings and increased their exposure to competitive markets. We...
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Stabilization Plans holding incumbent utility prices below cost since 2006. In the Ohio gas sector, rate regulation has not …
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On 29 June 2011 the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) accepted an access undertaking from Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) in relation to the Hunter Valley rail network. The ACCC encouraged ARTC and its users (principally coal producers) to discuss and negotiate the...
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Driven by fear of underinvestment in network assets, merchant investment in electricity transmission networks (MTI) is now legally allowed. Given that MTI is a real possibility, regulators face a new set of questions. After classifying different types of MTI, the paper raises and analyses...
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The German energy industries will be subjected to regulation of network access enforced by a sector-specific regulator … resulted in a margin squeeze. The government currently discusses whether to use rate-of-return or incentive regulation, to …
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and bring to an end one of the most misguided episodes in the modern history of UK regulation. …
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