The purpose of this article is to investigate the impact that the introduction of a carbon price signal will have on wholesale electricity prices, carbon-pass-through rates and retail electricity rates in the states making up the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM). In order to assess this, we employ an agent based model of the NEM called the ANEM model which contains many of the salie...

Regional economies are highly dependent on electricity, thus making their power supply systems attractive terrorist targets. We estimate the largest category of economic losses from electricity outages-business interruption-in the context of a total blackout of electricity in Los Angeles. We advance the state of the art in the estimation of the two factors that strongly influence the losses: in...

China has invested heavily on alternative energy, but the effectiveness of such energy sources at substituting the dominant coal-fired generation remains unknown. Here we analyse the displacement of fossil-fuel-generated electricity by alternative energy, primarily hydropower, and by trans-provincial imported electricity in China between 1995 and 2014 using two-way fixed-effects panel regressio...

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are ubiquitous in energy and environmental economics research. Recent technological advancements in electricity fuels, generation technologies, and environmental policies which target specific generation technologies (e.g., emission regulations) have motivated detailed CGE modeling of the electricity sector. Modeling these issues requires distinct ele...

The main objective of the utility company is to maximize the utilization of its existing assets during their life cycle meeting both engineering and financial requirements. However, the knowledge available in the utility is unstructured and often in tacit form. This paper presents a knowledge based system for the utility companies in order to make an optimal decision on power transformer with t...

Under the limitation of investment budget, a utility company is required to maximize the utilization of their existing assets during their life cycle satisfying both engineering and financial requirements. However, utility does not have knowledge about the status of each asset in the portfolio neither in terms of technical nor financial values. This paper presents a knowledge based model for th...

7 Abstract—This paper shows the application of a multi-criteria analysis method for the prioritization of commercial and supply restoration services in an electricity company. The methodology is based on the Macbeth algorithm and on a large amount of input parameters that are evaluated in order to set the relative importance of each service. This study is of great relevance and complexity becau...

Modern infrastructure, particularly electricity, is critical to economic development. Deficits cause shortages that constrain total output, magnifying the return to their elimination. South Asia, faced with inefficient and bankrupt state-owned vertically integrated electricity supply industries, was under strong pressure to reform. An imperfect diagnosis encouraged private investment in generat...

1. Introduction Mitsubishi Electric offers solutions centered on security , under the brand name DIGUARD, for various customer problems in buildings, factories, public facilities , and so on. As an example, this paper describes the development of an energy saving system that coordinates security and lighting equipment. In recent years, as evidenced by revisions to the Energy Saving Law and Toky...

Greenhouse gas mitigation efforts in the electricity sector emphasize accelerated deployment of energy efficiency measures and renewable energy resources. Short-run benefits associated with incremental investments in energy efficiency or renewables manifest indirectly as reductions in the economic operating costs and emissions of marginal electricity generating units. We evaluate different rene...