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Incremental-cost pricing: What efficiency requires

Journal Article · · Fortnightly
OSTI ID:229912

In thinking about pricing in a deregulated electric power industry, getting the right price at the generator is not sufficient. Transmission prices that provide economically efficient prices for delivered capacity are needed, and that in turn requires transmission prices based on marginal or incremental costs. This article is an overview of incremental-cost pricing in the electric power industry.

OSTI ID:
229912
Journal Information:
Fortnightly, Journal Name: Fortnightly Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 134; ISSN FRTNE8
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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