Competitive retail electricity markets are barely 30 years old. As Schmalensee explains in
Chapter 2 of this handbook, the 'traditional'arrangements for the electricity industry involved …

Advances in power electronics, computer and communications have opened new avenues
for the monitoring, control and protection of critical infrastructures. For instance, the advent of …

This paper presents an analysis and defense of competition in retail electricity supply. It
includes some account of its development in the UK over the last dozen years, to the point …

It has been proposed that, when electricity markets open to retail competition, incumbent
distribution utilities should be required to sell to residential customers at wholesale spot …

The Russian power sector reform initiated in 2001 endeavored to introduce competition into
major segments of the Russian electricity market. This paper examines how far the reforms …

The fast growth in demand of mobile Internet urges mobile network operators (MNOs) to
rapidly increase the wireless network capacity. For this purpose, governments are allocating …

The Executive Office of the President Report 2013 (EOP 2013) revealed that electric power
outages caused by severe weather conditions over the period 2003–2012 resulted in an …

This Ph. D. research focuses on the economic effects of energy and carbon market
regulations in the EU. Hypotheses derived from Law and Economics, in particular property …

The aim of this article is to provide a mid-term evaluation of liberalization of electricity
retailing in Europe, taking into account four limitations to policy analysis: different and often …

This chapter explains how the hedge worked, how the accountants entered the next
transactions on the books of Enron and the special purpose entity (SPE). The SPE created in …