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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
London Economics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US)
OSTI Identifier:
20080328
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Electricity Journal
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 10; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1999; Journal ID: ISSN 1040-6190
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY; RESELLERS; WHOLESALE PRICES; PRICES; COMPETITION; MARKET; RETAIL PRICES; RETAILERS

Citation Formats

Goulding, A J, Rufin, C, and Swinand, G. The role of vibrant retail electricity markets in assuring that wholesale power markets operate effectively. United States: N. p., 1999. Web. doi:10.1016/S1040-6190(99)00098-6.
Goulding, A J, Rufin, C, & Swinand, G. The role of vibrant retail electricity markets in assuring that wholesale power markets operate effectively. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6190(99)00098-6
Goulding, A J, Rufin, C, and Swinand, G. 1999. "The role of vibrant retail electricity markets in assuring that wholesale power markets operate effectively". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1040-6190(99)00098-6.
@article{osti_20080328,
title = {The role of vibrant retail electricity markets in assuring that wholesale power markets operate effectively},
author = {Goulding, A J and Rufin, C and Swinand, G},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1016/S1040-6190(99)00098-6},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/20080328}, journal = {Electricity Journal},
issn = {1040-6190},
number = 10,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1999},
month = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1999}
}