Electricity market reform failures: UK, Norway, Alberta and California

Energy Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1103-1115

  Woo, Chi Keung ^a,b   Lloyd, Debra ^a   Tishler, Asher ^c  

^a Energy and Environmental Economics Inc   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Electricity market reform; Performance based regulation; Reform failures

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY; ENERGY POLICY; INVESTMENTS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRICITY MARKET;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ENERGY MARKET; PRICE DYNAMICS; REFORM PROCESS;

CANADA; NORWAY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037412003     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00211-2     Document Type: Article

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