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Energy Regulation Insights

Energy Regulation Insights

A NERA Newsletter

The economics behind topical developments in energy sector regulation.

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Why the UK's Proposed Reform of Electricity Markets Needs More Rational Analysis, and Less Wishful Thinking
Graham Shuttleworth and Sean Gammons
25 January 2011

Capacity Markets: Prices vs. Quantities
Jonathan Falk
15 November 2010

How Splitting Energy Markets Promotes Transparency, Liquidity, and Efficient Investment
Graham Shuttleworth
14 June 2010

How to Make Competition Work for Future CO2 (and Other) Pipelines
Graham Shuttleworth
31 August 2009

Three Measures to Help Ownership Unbundling Achieve its Goals
10 January 2008

French Conseil de la Concurrence Finds EDF Guilty of Charging Market Prices
3 August 2007

Le Conseil de la concurrence français juge EDF coupable de pratiquer les prix du marché (French Conseil de la Concurrence Finds EDF Guilty of Charging Market Prices)
Sean Gammons
2 August 2007

Structure and Performance in Europe: A Review of the Report for DG Comp
Oscar Arnedillo
8 May 2007

FERC's Order 890 on Transmission Access and Charges
By Michael Rosenzweig and Sarah Voll
9 March 2007

CO2 Cost Pass-Through: German Competition Regulators' Shaky Economics
15 January 2007

Energy Regulation For German Energy Network Operators
30 June 2006

EC Challenges Member States Over Regulation of Electricity and Gas Markets
6 May 2006

Performance-Based Regulation of Electricity Transmission in the US: Goals and Necessary Reforms
1 March 2006

European Commission Sets Competition Issues for Gas and Electricity Markets
1 December 2005

US EPAct 2005 and State Utility Regulation in the US: What Every Utility Needs to Know
1 September 2005

Using Incentives to Inform Regulatory Decisions
1 August 2005

Germany's Push for an Incentive Regulation in the Energy Market
1 May 2005

Day-Ahead Markets and Market Power: A New Analysis
1 October 2004

OFGEM Proposes New Treatment of Capex Overspend
31 August 2004

''Pay-As-Bid'' Balancing Market Runs into Trouble in the UK
20 April 2004

Demand Response Measures: Using Market Forces to Fix Electricity Market Failures
31 March 2003

Security of Energy Supply
31 March 2003

New EU Electricity and Gas Directives: A European Framework?
1 December 2002

The E.ON-Ruhrgas Merger: The German Government Decides Against Competition
1 August 2002

U.S. FERC Proposes to Standardize the Rules of Wholesale Electricity Markets
1 August 2002

Europe Warms to Emissions Trading
1 April 2002

The Adequacy of Prospective Returns on Generation Investments Under Price Control Mechanisms
1 February 2002

Investment-Related Stranded Costs in Europe
1 September 2001

OFGEM ''Focuses'' on Important Matters at Transco
1 July 2001

Re-Setting CPI-X Price Caps: Australian Court Endorses Use of Firm-Specific Costs
1 June 2001

Costs and Benefits of 100% Electricity Market Opening
1 April 2001

UK Competition Commission Rejects Tighter Regulation of Generators
1 January 2001

How California Should Respond to High Electricity Prices
1 September 2000

The European Gas Directive: Will it lead to an open and competitive market in gas?
1 June 2000

Order 2000: FERC's Final Rule on RTOs
1 January 2000

Regulatory Benchmarking: A way forward or a dead-end?
1 October 1999

New Electricity Trading Arrangements for England and Wales: A comment by NERA on OFGEM's proposals
1 August 1999

Electricity Transmission Pricing: The European Perspective
1 July 1999