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This research is about the problem of identifying key factors for corporate recovery of electric utilities in New Zealand and the Philippines. Its primary objective is to learn from the experiences of three regulated government utilities and one small private distributor that are involved in the...
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This dissertation uses recently developed empirical methodologies for the studyof multi-unit auctions to test the impacts of Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs)on the competitiveness of restructured electricity markets. FTRs are a special typeof financial option that hedge against volatility in...
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This dissertation assesses the evolving structure and performance of the electricity supply industry (ESI) in Queensland following the restructuring and deregulation process undertaken in 1997 and 1998 respectively. This microeconomic reform process essentially replaced a vertically integrated...
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tariffs on the range of goods countries export to the United States. The empirical analysis shows that tariffs tend to have a … 1996-2006 is explained by tariff reductions. This suggests the extensive margin has not amplified the impact of tariffs on … fragmentation, the results show that closer countries and countries with lower tariffs imposed on them export a wider range of goods …
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Rapidly declining gasoline prices from their record high during the summer of 2008, while ethanol prices remained relatively high, made it difficult for many bio-fuel policy modelers to fully explain the impacts of U.S. bio-fuel policies on fuel prices. Using profit-maximization models for...
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This paper presents the results of a survey and analysis ofelectricity tariffs and marginal electricity prices for … commercialbuildings. The tariff data come from a survey of 90 utilities and 250tariffs for non-residential customers collected in 2004 as …
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March 15,2004. The main overall goals of this new regulation are: to allow the lowest possible tariffs for end users, while …
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utility commissions (PUC) and utilities have considered implementing dynamic pricing tariffs, such as real-time pricing (RTP … is appropriate for utilities to offer a range of dynamic pricing tariffs and DR programs, or just ''plain vanilla … tariffs, three basic implementation issues require attention. First, should it be a default or optional tariff, and for which …
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Real-time pricing (RTP) has been advocated as an economically efficient means to send price signals to customers to promote demand response (DR) (Borenstein 2002, Borenstein 2005, Ruff 2002). However, limited information exists that can be used to judge how effectively RTP actually induces DR,...
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While more than 70 utilities in the U.S. have offered voluntary RTP tariffs on either a pilot or permanent basis, most … stimulate price responsive demand, we conducted a survey of 43 voluntary RTP tariffs offered in 2003. The survey involved …
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