The electric power industry has played an important role in the dramatic economic development in Korea, and electricity has become a critical factor sustaining the well-being of the Korean people. This study uses input–output analysis to investigate the role of the four electric power sectors (hydroelectric, fossil-fuels, nuclear and non-utility) in the Korean national economy for the period 19...

This paper presents an application of computer simulation as a policy analysis tool for the electric utility industry. In the last decade, the amount of electricity generation capacity has remained constant while demand for electricity has been increasing. This situation puts industrial electricity users, those who use large highly varying quantities of electricity in potentially risky producti...

Proposed reforms of Japan’s electricity supply industry are quite modest by international standards. In particular, while the retail market has been the focus of reform efforts, the wholesale market has been largely ignored. Most of the gains from reforming electricity supply in other countries have arisen, however, from exploiting technological changes that have allowed wholesale markets to be...

For a hundred of years electricity and its delivery were thought to be inseparable. Since the late-1980s and early-1990s things began to change. Due to diverse reasons [13] both developed and developing countries began to abandon the idea of an electricity industry vertically integrated to adopt a new model that allows competition and choice in electricity. The idea of commercial separation of ...