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Title: The role of vibrant retail electricity markets in assuring that wholesale power markets operate effectively

Journal Article · · Electricity Journal

Barriers to competitive supplier entry such as California's wholesale-price pass-through model can provide an almost insurmountable barrier to effective retail competition. The telecommunications, airline, and software industries provide lessons--positive and negative--on how creating competitive wholesale markets is insufficient to bring the benefits of competition to smaller consumers.

Research Organization:
London Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
OSTI ID:
20080328
Journal Information:
Electricity Journal, Vol. 12, Issue 10; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1999; ISSN 1040-6190
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English