Electricity marginal cost pricing : applications in eliciting demand responses /

Packed with case studies and practical real-world examples, Electricity Marginal Cost Pricing Principles allows regulators, engineers and energy economists to choose the pricing model that best fits their individual market. Written by an author with 13 years of practical experience, the book begins...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Greer, Monica
Corporate Author:	ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, ©2012.
Subjects:	Electric utilities > Rates > United States. Electric utilities > United States > Costs > Econometric models. Electric power consumption > United States > Econometric models. Services publics d'électricité > Tarifs > États-Unis. Services publics d'électricité > États-Unis > Coût > Modèles économétriques. Électricité > Consommation > États-Unis > Modèles économétriques. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Electrical. Electric power consumption > Econometric models Electric utilities > Rates United States Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

1. Introduction 2. The Theory of Natural Monopoly 3. Regulation and Policies pertaining to the Electric Utility Industry 4. Economics and Econometrics of Cost Models 5. Estimating Cost Models 6. Case Study: Cubic Cost Model to Estimate the Marginal Cost of Providing Electricity to End Users 7. Case Study: Cost Models to Illustrate Price and Substitution Elasticities Using KLEM Data 8. The Theory of Efficient Pricing 9. The Price and Substitution Elasticities of Demand Models 10. Case Study: Real-Time Pricing of Electricity.