The Single-Buyer Model : A Dangerous Path toward Competitive Electricity Markets

• Tác giả: Laszlo Lovei
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 330 Economics
• Thông tin xuất bản: World Bank, Washington, DC, 2012
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 309172
• Chủ đề: 1. CORRUPTION; 2. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; 3. INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS; 4. MARKET COMPETITION; 5. PROCUREMENT

Tóm tắt

Many Asian, African and Eastern European countries freeing up their electricity markets are preserving an artificial monopoly over the wholesale trading of electricity even after the vertically integrated national power company is unbundled. Evidence so far suggests that this single buyer model has major disadvantages in developing countries: it invites corruption, weakens payment discipline, and imposes contingent liabilities on the government. These disadvantages in most cases overshadow the higher short-term costs of a bilateral contracts model where generators contract with customers.