Download or read book Diagnosing Market Power in California s Deregulated Wholesale Electricity Market written by Severin Bornstein and published by . This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the degree of competition in the Cal. wholesale electricity market during the period June 1998 to Sep. 1999 by comparing the market prices with estimates of the prices that would have resulted if owners of instate fossil fuel generating facilities behaved as price takers. There were significant departures from competitive pricing and these departures are most pronounced during the highest demand periods, which tend to occur during the months of July-Sep. Through most of the winter and spring of 1999 there was little evidence of the exercise of market power. The exercise of market power raised the cost of power purchases by about 16% above the competitive level.
Download or read book Diagnosing Market Power in California s Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market written by Severin Borenstein and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective competition in wholesale electricity markets is a necessary feature of a successful electricity supply industry restructuring. We examine the degree of competition in the California wholesale electricity market during the period June 1998 to September 1999 by comparing the market prices with estimates of the prices that would have resulted if owners of instate fossil fuel generating facilities behaved as price takers. We find that there were significant departures from competitive pricing and that these departures are most pronounced during the highest demand periods, which tend to occur during the months of July through September. Through most of the winter and spring of 1999 there was little evidence of the exercise of market power. Overall, the exercise of market power raised the cost of power purchases by about 16% above the competitive level. Following the presentation of our methodology for computing the counterfactual price-taking market price, we describe why our calculation represents a lower bound on the extent of market power and why the observed market prices cannot by attributed to competitive peak-lead pricing
Download or read book Diagnosing Market Power in California s Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market written by Severin Borenstein and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective competition in wholesale electricity markets is a necessary feature of a successful electricity supply industry restructuring. We examine the degree of competition in the California wholesale electricity market during the period June 1998 to September 1999 by comparing the market prices with estimates of the prices that would have resulted if owners of instate fossil fuel generating facilities behaved as price takers. We find that there were significant departures from competitive pricing and that these departures are most pronounced during the highest demand periods, which tend to occur during the months of July through September. Through most of the winter and spring of 1999 there was little evidence of the exercise of market power. Overall, the exercise of market power raised the cost of power purchases by about 16% above the competitive level. Following the presentation of our methodology for computing the counterfactual price-taking market price, we describe why our calculation represents a lower bound on the extent of market power and why the observed market prices cannot by attributed to competitive peak-lead pricing.
Download or read book Diagnosing Market Power in California s Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presents an abstract of the September 2000 paper entitled "Diagnosing Market Power in California's Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market," written by Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, and Frank Wolak. The paper is number W7868 in the NBER Working Paper series and the full text is available for purchase in PDF format. This paper examines the degree of competition in the California wholesale electricity market during the period June 1998 to September 1999 by comparing the market prices with estimates of the prices.
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Download or read book Electricity Deregulation written by James M. Griffin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The electricity market has experienced enormous setbacks in delivering on the promise of deregulation. In theory, deregulating the electricity market would increase the efficiency of the industry by producing electricity at lower costs and passing those cost savings on to customers. As Electricity Deregulation shows, successful deregulation is possible, although it is by no means a hands-off process—in fact, it requires a substantial amount of design and regulatory oversight. This collection brings together leading experts from academia, government, and big business to discuss the lessons learned from experiences such as California's market meltdown as well as the ill-conceived policy choices that contributed to those failures. More importantly, the essays that comprise Electricity Deregulation offer a number of innovative prescriptions for the successful design of deregulated electricity markets. Written with economists and professionals associated with each of the network industries in mind, this comprehensive volume provides a timely and astute deliberation on the many risks and rewards of electricity deregulation.
Download or read book Diagnosing Maket Power in California s Restructured Wholesale Electricity Market written by Severin Borenstein and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Restructured Electricity Markets written by Jim Wells and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our analysis and other studies found evidence that wholesale electricity suppliers exercised market power by raising prices abov.
Download or read book The California Electricity Crisis written by Christopher Weare and published by Public Policy Instit. of CA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Electricity Crisis written by Charles J. Cicchetti and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-08 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to explain what went wrong in California’s restructured energy markets and what must be done to restore California’s economy and build new electricity systems. The intention here is to reconcile the principles of competition and regulation. California had a severe electricity crisis for about thirteen months beginning in May of 2000. The economic consequences and political fallout that arose from this crisis persist. California’s economy continues to suffer and the state’s treasury is deeply in debt. The state’s three investor-owned utilities were nearly financially decimated. San Diego Gas & Electric has recovered to a greater degree than the other two only because its retail prices are about three times the national average and, for a time, well above the other two IOUs in California. Southern California Edison has recently been restored to investment grade and was granted a rate increase. Pacific Gas & Electric is emerging from bankruptcy. This book discusses all of this in greater detail. The problems and consequences arising from California’s ill-fated foray into electricity market restructuring could damage the state for years to come. Challenges of this nature are not new to the Golden State. In the past, as we explain here, pragmatic, not entrenched, approaches have worked best in California. If California is to relatively quickly restore its previous enviable economic vitality and recover from the damage done to tarnish its luster, pragmatic approaches must again be used.
Download or read book California Power Crisis written by Nabil I. Al-Najjar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between May 2000 and January 2001, the recently deregulated electricity market in the state of California experienced what many commentators have characterized as a meltdown. Over that period, wholesale electricity prices increased over 500%, power emergencies and the threat of rolling blackouts became daily occurrences, and the state's largest investor-owned utility was thrust into bankruptcy. Details California's attempt to deregulate its wholesale and retail electricity markets. To identify the drivers of increases in the wholesale price of electricity in California and to provide an opportunity to diagnose the causes of California's crisis.
Download or read book Energy Deregulation written by California. Bureau of State Audits and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Unilateral Market Power in Electricity written by Frank A. Wolak and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper first describes those features of the electricity supply industry that make a prospective market monitoring process essential to a well-functioning wholesale market. Some of these features are shared with the securities industry, although the technology of electricity production and delivery make a reliable transmission network a necessary condition for an efficient wholesale market. These features of the electricity supply industry also make antitrust or competition law alone an inadequate foundation for an electricity market monitoring process.
Download or read book An Empirical Analysis of the Potential for Market Power in California s Electricity Industry written by James Busby Bushnell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We use demand and plant-level cost data to simulate competition in a restructured California electricity market. This approach recognizes that firms might have an incentive to restrict output in order to raise price and enables us to explicitly analyze each firm's ability to do so. We find that, under the current structure of generation ownership, there is potential for significant market power in high demand hours. During some months, congestion over Path 15, the primary in-state north-south transmission line, exacerbates the market power potential in northern California. While these results make deregulation of generation less attractive than if there were no market power, they do not suggest that deregulation would be a mistake. Nearly all markets exhibit some degree of market power. We find that the levels of hydroelectric production and the elasticity of demand are two of the most important factors in determining the severity of market power, having greater impact on equilibrium prices than the proposed divestitures of California's largest producers. These results indicate that policies promoting the responsiveness of both consumers and producers to price fluctuations can have a significant effect on reducing the market power problem
Download or read book Overview of Investigations Studies and Reports Regarding the Energy Crisis May 31 2001 written by California. Legislature. Senate. Select Committee to Investigate Price Manipulation of the Wholesale Energy Market and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Energy Crisis written by Will McNamara and published by PennWell Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California was the first to open its electricity markets to competition (1998) and is often viewed as a prototype for deregulation. This book takes readers into the heart of the California energy crisis and recounts the facts surrounding California's deregulation.
Download or read book Attorney General s Energy White Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
