Changing the Electricity Customer Mentality, Under Energy Market Liberalisation Circumstances

Author(s):  
Laurentia Predescu ◽  
Oana Popescu

Significance Freer access to markets and the professions has been recommended to stimulate competition, generate growth and benefit consumers. However, the benefits of such an approach for the Greek economy are unlikely to materialise, as the increased competition will be free, but not fair. Greek and European economic players have vastly different operating conditions, including access to finance, state support and regulation. Political uncertainty, lack of natural resources, low productivity and relatively high wages continue to deter future investment into the country's productive capacity. Impacts The reforms will address the inability to compete on equal terms with European counterparts of Greek economic actors -- predominantly, SMEs. Yet their perceived injustice will antagonise the population, intensifying nationalistic attitudes already present in society. Greece's barely surviving SMEs will take an additional hit from liberalisation of the energy market.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-126
Author(s):  
Charis Vlados ◽  
Dimos Chatzinikolaou ◽  
Foteini Kapaltzoglou

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
BURKARD EBERLEIN

ABSTRACTThis case study asks whether delegated, sectoral governance by private actors and arm’s-length agencies enhances policy efficacy or does sectoral governance require a shadow of hierarchy cast by government actors to deliver desired policy results? EU energy market liberalisation shows that sectoral governance successfully mobilises regulatory expertise, capacity and legitimacy and delivers workable norms and rules for market transactions in a complex policy environment. However, it also finds that the efficacy of sectoral governance mechanisms is constrained by distributive conflicts between different national jurisdictions and sector interests. If deadlock occurs, the European Commission as governmental principal casts a double shadow of hierarchy over sectoral governance agents: the threat of further legislation and of EU competition law. While both instruments enhance policy efficacy, they cannot substitute for the intrinsic rule-making qualities of sectoral governance: governance and government play complementary roles in the policy process.


2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-261
Author(s):  
Klaus Dieter Streb

This article describes the successful transfer to competitive energy markets by a former local public utility in Germany. The conditions necessary to meet this challenge successfully, in particular the consultation and proactive approach of the workforce and trade unions, but also innovative business strategies, are set out. The article shows that competition can be used by companies providing public services to rid themselves of the constraints they had under public ownership.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 966-979
Author(s):  
O.B. Sheveleva ◽  
E.V. Slesarenko

Subject. The article deals with the security of the fiscal and budgetary system in resource-based regions during highly volatile prices in the global energy market external economic, political, technological and epidemiological shocks. Objectives. The study is to detect hazards in the fiscal and budgetary system of resource-based regions. Such hazards really put the regional competitiveness and economic security at peril. Methods. The article evaluates the security of the fiscal system in the Kemerovo Oblast through the integral indicator and the threshold (critical) value. Results. We found key threats to the fiscal and budgetary system of the Kemerovo Oblast, which undermine the regional competitiveness and economic security. Conclusions and Relevance. Authorities shall comprehensively attempt to create the environment for developing manufacturing sectors in the region, especially science-intensive and high-tech production enterprises by alleviating infrastructure and administrative constraints for business, raising the finance of science and innovation from the State and mobilize investors' resources, lure them to finance prioritized lines of the regional economic development. The findings and conclusions can be used to outline principles of the region's economic policy, socioeconomic development strategies of the region economy.


2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Blerina Muskaj

At the beginning of my paper I will explain the concept of "Geopolitics of Energy", this will be done for a quite simple reason, because I want everyone who can sit to read this article to understand more clearly what is at stake, therefore allow them the comprehension of what is being elaborated bellow at first sight. Geopolitics of energy is a concept that relates to policies choosing exporters to implement on importers, is the policy that has an impact on energy consumption, which includes consumer’s choice in the geopolitical context, taking into account the economy, foreign policy, the safety of energy, environmental consequences and priorities that carries the energy exporter. This concept permits the understanding of how works the politics that undertakes this initiative taking into account natural resources such as: natural gas and oil. Natural gas and oil are two main resources that produce energy but also two main elements on which arises all the topic in the energetics game. For this paper is used qualitative methodology, through which we were able to accomplish this work. I focused on scientific literature, official publications and reports on energy geopolitics. The main aim has been to show how in this decade, energy security is at the center of geopolitical agenda and has become the focus of numerous political debates. Regarding this point of view, Europe is taking the initiative to create a common energy market within the continent by creating projects, in which Albania appears as a new regional energy potential. Russia, which is aiming to play a role in the international arena, is seeking to position itself geopolitically in "its political weapon", hydrocarbon resources, in particular natural gas resources.


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