Electricity prices in a competitive environment
Subtitle: marginal cost pricing of generation services and financial status of electric utilities : a preliminary analysis through 2015.
Contributors: United States. Energy Information Administration. Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting.
Publisher: Energy Information Administration, Office of Integrated Analysis and Forecasting, U.S. Dept. of Energy; For sale by U.S. Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 110
Subjects: North American Electric Reliability Council.; Electric utilities -- United States -- Costs.; Electric utilities -- Rates -- United States.; Electric power-plants -- United States -- Cost of operation.; Competition -- United States.
Other titles: Marginal cost pricing of generation services and financial status of electric utilities; Financial status of electric utilities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"August 1997."
"Distribution category UC-950."
GPO Stock no.: 061-003-01002-4.
Includes information on pricing electricity in a competitive environment, competitive electricity price projections, including average costs, marginal costs, time-of-use pricing, cost reductions and efficiency improvements due to competition, capital recovery, reserve margins, competitive marginal cost pricing of electricity and bankruptcy, and financial implications for a typical regional utility and for groups of utilities.
For the analyses, regional markets were defined according to the NERC regions and selected subregions, which were established along the boundaries formed by the transmission system in the United States.