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Regulation of the Power Sector

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  • © 2013

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  • Practical nature of the text takes the reader outside the realm of economic theory and into the real-world of energy regulation
  • Covers all aspects of the regulation of energy-supply with examples from Europe and the US
  • Deals with advanced topics such as supranational regional power systems and aspects of environmental regulation of vital current interest

Part of the book series: Power Systems (POWSYS)

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Regulation of the Power Sector is a unified, consistent and comprehensive treatment of the theories and practicalities of regulation in modern power-supply systems. The need for generation to occur at the time of use occasioned by the impracticality of large-scale electricity storage coupled with constant and often unpredictable changes in demand make electricity-supply systems large, dynamic and complex and their regulation a daunting task.

Arranged in four parts, this book addresses both traditional regulatory frameworks and also liberalized and re-regulated environments. First, an introduction gives a full characterization of power supply including engineering, economic and regulatory viewpoints. The second part presents the fundamentals of regulation and the third looks at the regulation of particular components of the power sector in detail. Advanced topics and subjects still open or subject to dispute form the content of Part IV.

In a sector where regulatory design is the key driver of both the industry efficiency and the returns on investment, Regulation of the Power Sector is directed at regulators, policy decision makers, business managers and researchers. It is a pragmatic text, well-tested by the authors’ quarter-century of experience of power systems from around the world. Power system professionals and students at all levels will derive much benefit from the authors’ wealth of blended theory and real-world-derived know-how.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Instituto de Investigación Tecnológica, Madrid, Spain

    Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Regulation of the Power Sector

  • Editors: Ignacio J. Pérez-Arriaga

  • Series Title: Power Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5034-3

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Energy, Energy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5033-6Published: 22 May 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6913-0Published: 23 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-5034-3Published: 26 February 2014

  • Series ISSN: 1612-1287

  • Series E-ISSN: 1860-4676

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 728

  • Number of Illustrations: 95 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Industrial Organization, Systems Theory, Control

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