Competition in electricity distribution

Utilities Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 231-237

  Saplacan, Roxana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Competition; Natural monopoly; Organizational change; Regulation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION; MONOPOLY; ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE;

EID: 54049124653     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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