Electricity prices in the Finnish retail market

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2179-2192

  Lehto, Eero ^a  

^a Labour Institute for Economic Research   (Finland)

Author keywords

Average cost pricing; Ownership structure; Retail electricity prices

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COST; AVERAGE FUEL COSTS; ELECTRICITY PRICES; FINNISH; LOW-COST ELECTRICITY; OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE; RETAIL ELECTRICITY PRICES; RETAIL MARKET; RETAIL PRICE; WHOLE SALE PRICES;

COMMERCE; ELECTRICITY; SALES;

COSTS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; OWNERSHIP; PRICE DYNAMICS; RETAILING;

FINLAND;

EID: 79952310926     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.02.007     Document Type: Article

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