Balancing groundwater depletion, socioeconomic development and food security in Saudi Arabia will require policy that promotes expansion of unconventional freshwater supply options, such as wastewater recycling and desalination. As these processes consume more electricity than conventional freshwater supply technologies, Saudi Arabia's electricity system is vulnerable to groundwater conservatio...

CWPE 0615 and EPRG 0515 These working papers present preliminary research findings, and you are advised to cite with caution unless you first contact the author regarding possible amendments. Introduction The goals of market design include, as a precondition of continued popular and therefore political support, confidence in security of high quality supply at sustainably competitive prices. Sus...

The state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is vital to the success of Germany’s energy transition, as it is the traditional center of Germany’s manufacturing and energy-intensive industries, such as metal production, basic chemicals, non-ferrous metals and paper. NRW’s long history and high concentration of energy-intensive industry operations is mainly due to the proximity of black coal and lig...

With the increasing use of different types of auctions in market designing, modeling of participants’ behaviors to evaluate the market structure is one of the main discussions in the studies related to the deregulated power industries. In this article, we apply an approach of the optimal bidding behavior to the Iran wholesale electricity market as a restructured electric power industry and mode...

gives a welcome opportunity to discuss the use of external cardiac resuscitation by personnel of the Electricity Supply Industry. The dangers of this technique have been pointed out by Baringer et al. (1961) and by Clark (1962). As a result of the paper by Baringer and his colleagues, both the Lancet (1961) and the British Medical Journal (1961) carried leading articles counselling against the ...

The deregulation of the electricity industry in many countries has created a number of marketplaces in which producers and consumers can operate in order to more effectively manage and meet their energy needs. To this end, this paper develops a new model for electricity retail where end-use customers choose their supplier from competing electricity retailers. The model is based on simultaneous ...

In a number of jurisdictions, deregulation has led to the establishment of auction spot markets for electricity supply. Short run demand for electricity is almost totally inelastic, and in most situations economically significant amounts of electricity cannot be stored. During periods when demand is relatively high, suppliers with what, in other markets, would be regarded as a relatively small ...