Electricity prices in a competitive environment :
marginal cost pricing of generation services and financial status of electric utilities : a preliminary analysis through 2015.

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Corporate Author

United States. Energy Information Administration.

Language(s)

English

Published

Washington, DC : U.S. Energy Information Administration, 1997.

Subjects

North American Electric Reliability Council.
Stranded investments.
Electricity > Electricity / Prices > Electricity / Prices / Forecasting.
Competition.
Electric utilities > Electric utilities / Rates > Electric utilities / Rates / United States.
Electric power-plants > Electric power-plants / Cost of operation.
Electric utilities > Electric utilities / United States > Electric utilities / United States / Costs.

Note

For the analyses, regional markets were defined according to the NERC regions and selected subregions, which were established along the boundaries formed by the transmission system in the United States.
Includes information on pricing electricity in a competitive environment, competitive electricity price projections, including average costs, marginal costs, time-of-use pricing, cost reductions and efficiency improvements due to competition, capital recovery, reserve margins, competitive marginal cost pricing of electricity and bankruptcy, and financial implications for a typical regional utility and for groups of utilities.
GPO Stock no.: 061-003-01002-4.
"Distribution category UC-950."
"August 1997."

Physical Description

xvi, 110 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.

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