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Competition in European Electricity Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electric utilities--European Union countries--Cross-cultural studies.
- Electric utilities.
- Electric utilities--Finland.
- Electric utilities--Norway.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 367 p.) : ill.
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book focuses on the diversity of electricity reforms in Western Europe, drawing evidence from ten European Union memberstates plus Norway and Switzerland as associate members. The contributors analyse the various ways of introducing competition in the European electricity industries, and consider both the strategies of electricity companies and their behaviour in electricity marketplaces. They also offer an explanation of the differences of reforms by the institutions and the industrial structures of each country which shape the types of marketrules, industrial restructuring and public service regulations which have been adopted.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The British and Scandinavian pioneers
- pt. 2. The making of electricity markets in western central europe
- pt. 3. The making of electricity markets in southern Europe.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78195-026-1
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