Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research: Recent submissions

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    • Did English generators play cournot? : capacity withholding in the electricity pool 

      Green, Richard (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)
      Electricity generators can raise the price of power by withholding their plant from the market. We discuss two ways in which this could have affected prices in the England and Wales Pool. Withholding low-cost capacity which ...

    • Retail electricity competition 

      Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)
      We analyze a number of unstudied aspects of retail electricity competition. We first explore the implications of load profiling of consumers whose traditional meters do not allow for measurement of their real time consumption, ...

    • Reliability and competitive electricity markets 

      Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean (MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, 2004)
      Despite all of the talk about ₃deregulation₄ of the electricity sector, a large number of non-market mechanisms have been imposed on emerging competitive wholesale and retail markets. These mechanisms include spot market ...