Deregulating the electricity sector

The purpose of this paper is to review several ways of restructuring the industrial electric sector providing examples of countries which have adopted the models that are submitted and that will be turning up in this work. The alternatives for a wholesale electricity market organisation are displaye...

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Autores: Vignolo, Mario, Monzón, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2002
País:Uruguay
Institución:Universidad de la República
Repositorio:COLIBRI
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:colibri.udelar.edu.uy:20.500.12008/21232
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/21232
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Deregulation
Wholesale electricity market
Transmission
Distribution
Supply
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Sumario:The purpose of this paper is to review several ways of restructuring the industrial electric sector providing examples of countries which have adopted the models that are submitted and that will be turning up in this work. The alternatives for a wholesale electricity market organisation are displayed taking into account that each particular solution to be adopted depends on the case of study features. In addition, advice is given on the transmission and distribution business regulation problem. Finally, we analyse the deregulation of the electricity sector in Uruguay in relation with the particular characteristics of the Uruguayan market.