Government procurement of peak capacity in the New Zealand electricity market

Energy Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3409-3417

  Poletti, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Electricity; Market power; Security of supply

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION CAPACITY; ELECTRICITY MARKET; GENERATING CAPACITY; GENERATION CAPACITY; GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT; MARKET POWER; NEW ZEALAND; PEAK CAPACITY; PEAK GENERATION; PEAK PRICES; REAL TIME PRICING; SECURITY OF SUPPLY; SUPPLY DISRUPTION; TIME PERIODS;

COMMERCE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; MODELING; SECURITY;

EID: 67650264172     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.03.017     Document Type: Article

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