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Regulatory independence and political interference : evidence from EU mixed-ownership utilities’ investment and debt

Cambini, Carlo; Rondi, Laura - 2010 - This draft: 11 May 2010

account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of …

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Providing efficient network access to green power generators : a long-term property rights perspective

Petropoulos, Georgios; Willems, Bert - 2016

Coordinating the timing and location of new production facilities is one of the challenges of liberalized power sectors. It is complicated by the presence of transmission bottlenecks, oligopolistic competition, and the unknown prospects of low-carbon technologies. The authors build a model...

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What's the damage? : environmental regulation with policy-motivated bureaucrats

Voß, Achim; Lingens, Jörg - 2014

Many environmental-policy problems are characterized by complexity and uncertainty. Government's choice concerning these policies commonly relies on information provided by a bureaucracy. Environmental bureaucrats often have a political motivation of their own, so they might be tempted to...

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The regulation of distributed solar power generation in Costa Rica : status, challenges and options for the future

Cornick, Jorge - 2020

This paper provides a general characterization of overall power regulation and a detailed characterization of the … ongoing evolution of distributed rooftop photovoltaic (PV) regulation in Costa Rica. The paper further develops rooftop PV … the institutional architecture of power regulation in Costa Rica and contrasts it with international best practices …

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Tariff schemes and regulations : what changes are needed in the Mexican residential electricity sector to support efficient adoption of green technologies?

Hancevic, Pedro; Núñez, Héctor; Rosellón, Juan - 2019

The efficient deployment of green technologies, and more generally, the clean energy transition, will require electricity tariff reforms. Existing tariff schemes often fail to achieve basic economic objectives. They set prices per unit that either exceed or fall short of the social marginal...

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Wind, storage, interconnection and the cost of electricity generation

Di Cosmo, Valeria; Malaguzzi Valeri, Laura - 2017

We evaluate how increasing wind generation affects wholesale electricity prices, balancing payments and the cost of subsidies using the Irish Single Electricity Market (SEM) as a test system, with hourly data from 1 January 2008 to 28 August 2012. We model the spot market using a system of...

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Retail pricing in Colombia to support the efficient deployment of distributed generation and electric vehicles

McRae, Shaun D.; Wolak, Frank A. - 2020

Electricity tariff reforms will be an essential part of the clean energy transition. Existing tariffs rely on average cost pricing and often set a price per unit that exceeds marginal cost. The higher price encourages over-adoption of residential solar panels and under-adoption of electric...

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Use of long-term auctions for network investment

McDaniel, Tanga; Neuhoff, Karsten - 2003

Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce resources and capture scarcity rent. Now long-term auctions are being introduced to guide future capacity expansion decisions. In our model the fraction of rights issued in the...

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Properties of a non-competitive electricity market dominated by hydroelectric power

Førsund, Finn R.; Hoel, Michael - 2004

An important conclusion from the literature on hydropower is that if there are no other constraints than the available water reservoirs for a year, and operating costs are ignored, the competitive (and socially optimal) outcome is characterized by the (present value) price being constant through...

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Vertical integration under an optimal tax policy : a consumer surplus detrimental result

Giuranno, Michele G.; Scrimitore, Marcella; … - 2019

It is widely believed that vertical integration in an environment without foreclosure, or more generally without any mechanism that restricts competition among firms, raises the welfare of consumers. In this paper we show that this can be overturned in a standard setting. We consider a vertical...

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