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A welfare analysis of the electricity transmission regulatory regime in Germany

Kemfert, Claudia; Kunz, Friedrich; Rosellón, Juan - 2015

We analyze the current regulatory regime for electricity transmission in Germany, which combines network planning with both cost-plus and revenue-cap regulations. After reviewing international experiences on transmission investment, we first make a qualitative assessment of the overall German...

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Regulation and investment incentives in electricity distribution : an empirical assessment

Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015

's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional … specific heterogeneity. It should further include all institutional aspects of incentive regulation to design incentives that …

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FTR allocations to ease transition to nodal pricing : an application to the German power system

Kunz, Friedrich; Neuhoff, Karsten; Rosellón, Juan - 2014

A shift from zonal pricing to smaller zones and nodal pricing improves efficiency and security of system operation. Resulting price changes do however also shift profits and surplus between and across generation and load. As individual actorscan lose, they might oppose any reform. We explore how...

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Two price zones for the German electricity market : market implications and distributional effects

Egerer, Jonas; Weibezahn, Jens; Hermann, Hauke - 2015

We discuss the implications of two price zones, i.e. one northern and southern bidding area, on the German electricity market. In the northern zone, continuous capacity additions with low variable costs cause large regional supply surpluses in the market dispatch while conventional capacity...

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Market power and heterogeneous pass-through in German electricity retail

Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian - 2016

We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...

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Abuse of dominance and antitrust enforcement in the German electricity market

Duso, Tomaso; Szücs, Florian; Böckers, Veit - 2017

In 2008, the European Commission investigated E.ON, a large and vertically integrated electricity company, for the alleged abuse of a joint dominant position by strategically withholding generation capacity. The case was settled after E.ON agreed to divest 5,000 MW generation capacity as well as...

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Gone with the wind? : electricity market prices and incentives to invest in thermal power plants under increasing wind energy supply

Traber, Thure (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor) - 2009

The increased wind energy supplied to many electricity markets around the world has to be balanced by reliable back up units or other complementary measures when wind conditions are low. At the same time wind energy impacts both, the utilization of thermal power plants and the market prices....

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German nuclear phase-out policy : effects on European electricity wholesale prices, emission prices, conventional power plant investments and eletricity trade

Traber, Thure; Kemfert, Claudia - 2012

The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these effects with a Electricity market model for Europe...

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Can the German electricity market benefit from the EU enlargement? : Results of scenario calculations using the EMELIE model

Horn, Manfred (contributor); Kemfert, Claudia (contributor); … - 2006

This paper investigates the impacts of the eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004 and the liberalisation of European electricity markets on Germanys electricity exchange with neighbouring countries and on electricity prices. Thus, electricity imports from Czech Republic have increased...

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Corporate self-regulation vs. ex-ante regulation of network access : a model of the German gas sector

Meran, Georg (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This paper compares the outcomes of corporate self-regulation and traditional ex-ante regulation of network access to … monopolistic bottlenecks. In the model of self-regulation, the domestic gas supplier and network owner and the monopsonistic gas …-ante regulation. We find that while industrial self-regulation leads to an exploitation of households, the effect on the foreign …

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