Trends in prices to commercial energy consumers in the competitive Texas electricity market

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 4332-4339

  Zarnikau, Jay ^a,b   Fox, Marilyn ^c   Smolen, Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Frontier Associates   (United States)

^c Smolen and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Deregulation; Electricity market restructuring; Electricity prices

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; DEREGULATION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC RATES; NATURAL GAS;

ELECTRICITY MARKET RESTRUCTURING; ELECTRICITY PRICES;

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY;

COMMODITY PRICE; COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); DEREGULATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY MARKET; NATURAL GAS; RETAILING;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34248591718     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.02.024     Document Type: Article

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