Competitive Electricity Markets: Design, Implementation, Performance (Elsevier Global Energy Policy and Economics Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080471722 ISBN 13: 9780080471723

Publisher: Elsevier Science, 2008

Synopsis

After 2 decades, policymakers and regulators agree that electricity market reform, liberalization and privatization remains partly art. Moreover, the international experience suggests that in nearly all cases, initial market reform leads to unintended consequences or introduces new risks, which must be addressed in subsequent “reform of the reforms. Competitive Electricity Markets describes the evolution of the market reform process including a number of challenging issues such as infrastructure investment, resource adequacy, capacity and demand participation, market power, distributed generation, renewable energy and global climate change.

• Sequel to Electricity Market Reform: An International Perspective in the same series published in 2006
• Contributions from renowned scholars and practitioners on significant electricity market design and implementation issues
• Covers timely topics on the evolution of electricity market liberalization worldwide

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About the Author

Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sectore working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the “Electricity Currents section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited nine books on related topics with Elsevier.

Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0080471722
• ISBN 13: 9780080471723
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Sioshansi Fereidoon