Contributions

  • Besen, Stanly M. - Contributor
  • Hayashi, Toshi. - Contributor
  • United States. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. - Contributor
  • United States. Dept. of Energy. - Contributor
  • Rand Corporation. - Contributor

Publication

1985 - Rand, Santa Monica, CA, California

Language

English

Word Count

30,000 words, Guess

Page Count

120 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number86102325

Classifications

  • DDC381/.4562131/0973
  • LCCHD9685.U5 A5857 1985

Description

This report presents the results of RAND's analysis of data from the first year of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) Southwest bulk electric power market experiment. In successive sections, the authors describe current FERC regulation of transactions among electric utilities; develop a simple conceptual model of the economics of bulk power exchanges; discuss the effects of current regulation on the behavior of utilities in this model; describe the six utilities participating in the FERC experiment; and present efficiency and competitive analyses based on a paradigm of a hypothetical competitive and frictionless market consisting of the six participating utilities. The authors report mixed findings with respect to efficiency, and inconclusive results of the analysis of competitiveness. They suggest that refining the analytic technique and analyzing the second year of experimental data will be beneficial.--Publisher's description.

Subjects

Topics

CostsGovernment policyElectric utilitiesEmergency power supplyInterconnected electric utility systemsEmergency power supply -- United States.Electric utilities -- Government policy -- United States.

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