Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization: Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment (Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks)
Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: L. Lynne Kiesling Издательство: Страниц: 208 ISBN: 0415541182
Описание
Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the industry to adapt to these changes has been variable. Many states in the U.S. do not participate in open wholesale markets, and even more states have either no retail markets or have implemented such a restricted and politicized version of retail markets that potential retail market entrants still face substantial entry barriers. This book explores institutional design and regulatory policies in the US electricity industry that can adapt to unknown and changing conditions produced by economic, social, and technological change.Whereas the dominant regulatory paradigm has traditionally been centralized economic and physical control based on natural monopoly theory and power systems engineering, the...
