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This digital document is an article from E, published by Earth Action Network, Inc. on November 1, 1997. The length of the article is 1416 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Utility deregulation aims to encourage competition and eliminate monopolies. Environmental groups are lobbying for stringent safeguards for renewable energy to protect it from utility efforts to offer cheaper coal and oil. Renewable energy and efficiency programs must be protected from possible price reductions by utilities in their bid for more market share.

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Title: Power struggle: will utility deregulation finally unplug 'dirty' electricity?
Author: Jim Motavalli
Publication: E (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 1997
Publisher: Earth Action Network, Inc.
Volume: v8Issue: n6Page: p32(2)

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Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the industry to adapt to these changes has been variable. Many states in the U.S. do not participate in open wholesale markets, and even more states have either no retail markets or have implemented such a restricted and politicized version of retail markets that potential retail market entrants still face substantial entry barriers. This book explores institutional design and regulatory policies in the US electricity industry that can adapt to unknown and changing conditions produced by economic, social, and technological change.

Whereas the dominant regulatory paradigm has traditionally been centralized economic and physical control based on natural monopoly theory and power systems engineering, the ideas presented and synthesized by Kiesling compose a different paradigm – decentralized economic and physical coordination through contracts, transactions, price signals, and integrated intertemporal wholesale and retail markets. Digital communication technology, and its increasing pervasiveness and affordability, make this decentralized coordination possible. Kiesling argues that with decentralized coordination, distributed agents themselves control part of the system, and in aggregate their actions produce order. Technology makes this order feasible, but the institutions, the rules governing the interaction of agents in the system, contribute substantially to whether or not order can emerge from this decentralized coordination process.

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* Explains the principles of markets and how to evaluate investment projects under competition.
* With the growth of electricity markets in many countries, this has wide relevance for operators of electricity generation facilities worldwide.
* Ideal for electrical engineers employed in the electric utility industry who have little background in economics and financing.
* Appropriate for utility industry professionals in regions of the world now considering or experiencing electric utility liberalization or deregulation. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

My book is great!
Hey, this is my one and only book. The first 5 chapters cover regulatory economics and the last 4 chapters examine electricity regulatory reform in California, Norway, Spain, and Argentina. Each of the case studies uses the same format, so experience can be compared from country to country (we kinda think of California as a country). I am most proud of the exercises in Chapters 2-5 that build on previous chapters. For example, Chapter 2 is an excellent overview of energy economics: everything you'll need to be able to understand economic journals articles (but you need to work through the exercises). Let me know what you think: google me to find my current email address.

Very Good Book
This book is easy to follow all concepts. Any new power system engineers should have it in order to understanding a deregulated market.

Fast approach to worldwide electricity market understanding!
I used this book for an MBA project work about Italian electricity market. Easy to read and understand, it covers the basics of deregulation, the electricity market pool, the basic activities such as generation, trasmission, distribution and retail and proposes some real cases about market liberalization (California, Norway, Spain and Argentina) that should help to understand every kind of specific worldwide market. I found this book very useful for my educational purposes but maybe it could be too much generic for professional people. ... Read more

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A great collection
This book compiles articles on the entire spectrum of issues, written by most of the leading authors in the area.I would say it is the best single book you could read if you were trying to get up to speed on the economics of electricity deregulation from scratch. ... Read more

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The electricity industry, one of the largest and most vital sectors of the U.S. economy, has changed dramatically in recent years. After being heavily regulated for more than a century by authorities at all levels, deregulation is taking center stage, allowing for enormous efficiency gains. Electric Choices explores the difficult questions surrounding deregulation and urges Americans to continue the transition to a market-based model. ... Read more

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Since the European Union's de-regulation policy for electricity and energy suppliers was implemented, new strategic configurations have emerged.Traditional restraints of geographical limitations on energy companies have been partly removed: the diversity at national regulatory and company level means that the European scene is one of a multiplicity of strategic configurations anddevelopments, whilst also being complex and segmented.

This book highlights the strategic and regulatory challenges of European deregulation, with its main focus being on the business strategies within the emerging de-regulated electricity markets; various regulatory implications which are being raised in this new climate are discussed.Some of the central strategic issues facing the electricity industry in its new competitive context are explored and reviewed, with classical themes debated as a prelude to the following empirical investigation of actual business strategies pursued by the electricity and energy industries.

The main section of this work consists of 7 national case studies of business strategies which also include one North and one South American case.These were considered important inclusions as the North American companies are large investors in the European market, whilst the European companies invest in the South American market.The final chapter is a comparison and summary of the national patterns of market structures, business strategies and regulatory styles with a brief look at some challenges to be faced in future.
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Insightful: Different Challenge in Different Energy Markets
Dr Midttun has edited a fantastic masterpiece. As other books in the Elsevier Global Energy Policy and Economics Series, this book brings a insightful and interesting approach about different challenges in the European Energy Sector. Chapters (02) Nordic Business Strategies; (03)Corporate Strategies in British Electricity; (06)French Power Systems; and (08)Power Co. in Brazil are very interesting and well written. I strongly recommend not only this book but also the Elsevier Series. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Energy Policy, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Taiwan is on the brink of embarking on an ambitious reform in the electricity sector. The future electricity market of Taiwan will be operated under the framework set out in the Electricity Act Amendment. Independent system operator (ISO) will be the core body of the future market operations and its establishment will therefore be the key to the liberalization. This paper presents the proposed implementation plan based on diverse factors considered by the officials. A three steps phased introduction of Taiwan ISO is discussed. During the proposed Phase I interim market arrangements, Taipower's System Operation Department will assume the role of System Operator for the market. The dispatch rules are largely based on the existing Taipower internal procedure. As competition increases, the need for increased transparency will necessitate the establishment of a fully independent ISO in Phase II to provide the real time dispatch services. This will be completed within 2 years after the passage of the Electricity Act Amendment Bill. In the last phase of the deregulation process a multilateral market arrangement for managing energy imbalance and transmission constraints will result in better outcomes in relation to the policy objectives of security and economic efficiency. The 2-year timeframe stipulated in the Electricity Act Amendment Bill is a challenge for the Government and the industry. However, a smoothly functioning Taiwan ISO will bring benefits to the industry and the country in general. ... Read more