Reconsidering the European regulation of merchant transmission investment in light of the third energy package: The role of dominant generators

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 7068-7077

  de Hauteclocque, Adrien ^a   Rious, Vincent ^b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b Microeconomix   (France)

Author keywords

European Union; Merchant transmission investment; Third energy package

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; ELECTRICITY GENERATORS; ELECTRICITY SECTOR; EUROPEAN AUTHORITIES; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; EUROPEAN REGULATION; EUROPEAN UNION; MARKET MONITORING; MERCHANT TRANSMISSION; THIRD ENERGY PACKAGE; TRANSMISSION SYSTEM OPERATORS;

DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; INTERNATIONAL LAW; LIGHT TRANSMISSION;

INVESTMENTS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; EUROPEAN UNION;

AUSTRIA; ITALY;

EID: 80054851383     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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