Energy Regulation Insights
A NERA Newsletter
The economics behind topical developments in energy sector regulation.
Current Issue:
Irish Supreme Court Restores Common Sense to the Single Electricity Market
Graham Shuttleworth and George Anstey
18 May 2012
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


