Electricity transmission: An overview of the current debate

Utilities Policy

Volumn 13, Issue 2 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 73-93

  Brunekreeft, Gert ^a,b   Neuhoff, Karsten ^a   Newberry, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Electricity; Merchant Investment; Prices; Regulation; Transmission

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; PRICE DETERMINATION; REGULATORY APPROACH;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 18744392803     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2004.12.002     Document Type: Article

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