Electricity Market Reforms Economics and Policy Challenges /

• Main Author: Belyaev, Lev S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Electric power production.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Energy Technology.; Development Economics.

With the global demand for energy skyrocketing, over the past twenty years many countries have restructured their electric power industries, typically moving from a regulated monopoly to a competitive market structure. The results of these reforms vary significantly from country to country depending...

Table of Contents:

• Electric Power Systems, Their Properties and Specific Features
• Electric Power Industry in the Context of Microeconomics
• Models of Electricity Market Organization
• Short Run Productivity Costs and the Electricity Market
• EPS Expansion with Different Market Models
• Foreign Experience in Electric Power Industry Restructuring
• Power Industry Restructuring in Russia.-.