Charges, costs and market power: The deregulated UK electricity retail market

Energy Journal

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 19-35

  Salies, Evens ^a   Price, Catherine Waddams ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; COSTS; DEREGULATION; ELECTRIC RATES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; MARKETING;

DEMAND FACTORS; ELECTRICITY RETAIL MARKET; PAYMENT METHOD;

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY;

EID: 4344716738     PISSN: 01956574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-Vol25-No3-2     Document Type: Article

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