Transition costs: estimation, sensitivities, and recovery

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Manufacturers, marketers and brokers in the electricity industry are being anticipated to experience transition cost losses with the implementation of deregulatory procedures. Such losses have prompted the need for the adoption of a standard method for estimating transition costs, with respect to existing liability and external factors. It has been established that the top-down approach method yields an accurate determination of transition costs. Furthermore, it has been established that factors, such as retail wheeling, the amount of retail load eligible for wheeling and utility fixed production costs, create significant impact on the degree of transition costs.

Research, Analysis, Deregulation, Financial management, Cost accounting

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Freer markets and the abatement of carbon emissions: the electricity-generating sector in India

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The experience of India's electric power sector proves that economic policy reforms can serve as effective environmental policy tools and lead to the abatement of carbon dioxide emissions. Electric utilities in India were able to reduce carbon emissions despite the absence of an emissions tax, an achievement which also led to an increase in domestic welfare and electricity output as well as conservation of coal. Reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and gains in domestic welfare are greater when trade and domestic policy reform is integrated into an emissions tax policy than those under an emissions tax policy alone.

Waste Management and Remediation Services, Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, Carbon Dioxide Pollutants, Air Pollution Control Programs, Prevention, Environmental aspects, Air pollution control, India, Carbon dioxide, Environmental policy, Air pollution, Gaseous pollutants

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Swiss residential demand for electricity by time-of-use

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Residential elasticity demand by time-of-use for electricity in Switzerland is analyzed. Aggregate data for four years and 40 cities were used to construct a model of two log-linear equations for peak and non-peak electricity consumption. The price elasticities obtained imply the responsiveness of electric consumption to price changes. It was also concluded that conservation of electricity can be effected by a pricing policy. Production can be effectively utilized by time-of-use pricing.

Switzerland, Supply and demand, Energy use, Electric power

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