Electric utilities throughout the world continue to face new challenges involving ownership, market structure, and regulation. There are three related issues at hand. First, should ownership be private or public? Second, what operations should be integrated and where is competition feasible? Third,...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Bibliographische Detailangaben

Weitere Verfasser:	Einhorn, Michael A. (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994
Ausgabe:	1st ed. 1994
Schlagworte:	Industrial Organization Microeconomics Electrical Engineering Industrial organization Electrical engineering Elektrizitätswirtschaft Privatisierung Energiepolitik Großbritannien USA Aufsatzsammlung
Online-Zugang:	BTU01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	Electric utilities throughout the world continue to face new challenges involving ownership, market structure, and regulation. There are three related issues at hand. First, should ownership be private or public? Second, what operations should be integrated and where is competition feasible? Third, where is regulation necessary and can it be made more efficient? This volume bears directly upon these concerns. The book contains two sections. The first six articles discuss the British electricity experiment that has privatized and disintegrated the nation's generation, transmission, and distribution companies, introduced market competition for power purchases, and implemented incentive regulation for monopolized transmission and distribution grids. The remaining articles focus on the theater in which significant microeconomic issues will continue to emerge, most immediately in the U.K. and U.S.A. -- the coordination and pricing of transmission
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (X, 286 p)
ISBN:	9789401113687
DOI:	10.1007/978-94-011-1368-7