Costs of electricity deregulation

Energy

Volumn 31, Issue 6-7, 2006, Pages 747-768

  Woo, C K ^a,b   King, M ^a   Tishler, A ^c   Chow, L C H ^b  

^a Energy and Environmental Economics Inc   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION; PRICE VOLATILITY;

ELECTRICITY;

COSTS; DEREGULATION; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY; MARKETING; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DEREGULATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 30944449002     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2005.03.002     Document Type: Article

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