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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798379503321

Autore

Stagnaro Carlo

Titolo

Power cut? : how the EU is pulling the plug on electricity markets / / Carlo Stagnaro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Institute of Economic Affairs, , 2015

ISBN

0-255-36717-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Soggetti

Energy industries - European Union countries

Electric power production - Economic aspects - European Union countries

Electric utilities - Government policy - European Union countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Complex supply chains and state monopoliesTackling environmental concerns; Summary; PART 1 ; The Theoretical Framework; 2 The climate-energy nexus; Carbon emissions and energy; Are climate change policies inconsistent with broadly free markets?; 3 Electricity - from power station to household; Power systems; 4 The natural monopoly problem in electricity; Has technological progress killed the 'natural monopoly' argument?; 5 Market clearing and the problem of renewables; How the electricity market clears; PART 2; Liberalisation in Advance and Retreat

The third liberalisation package