Markets in name only: Mandatory capacity markets and their adverse impact on load-serving entities

Electricity Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 52-60

  Caplan, Elise ^a   McCullar, Patrick E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

CAPACITY MARKETS; INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATORS; LOAD SERVING ENTITIES; NEW ENGLAND; PJM INTERCONNECTION; POWER UTILITY; RULE CHANGES;

COMMERCE;

EID: 84883290710     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2013.05.017     Document Type: Article

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