Electricity Markets in the United States: Power Industry Restructuring Processes for the Present and Future

The power industry is traditionally organized as a public utility. While the United States relies on investor owned utilities combined with public regulation. Europe and many other countries use public ownership as a means to control and regulate this important industry. This paper reviews economic theories which justify and/or explain public ownership, or more generally the regulation of (private or public) firms. The aim is to use recent (economic) approaches and criteria of deregulation in order to arrive at a proposal of a — presumably more efficient — organization of the power industry.

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INPO’s approach to human performance in the United States commercial nuclear power industry

2007 IEEE 8th Human Factors and Power Plants and HPRCT 13th Annual Meeting ◽

10.1109/hfpp.2007.4413179 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Tony Muschara

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Human Performance ◽

The United States ◽

Power Industry ◽

Nuclear Power Industry

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Directional Shadow Price Estimation of CO2, SO2 and NOx in the United States Coal Power Industry 1990–2010

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.2250682 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Chia-Yen Lee

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Shadow Price ◽

The United States ◽

Power Industry ◽

Price Estimation ◽

Coal Power

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Lessons of the Blackout

Mechanical Engineering ◽

10.1115/1.2004-aug-3 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 126 (08) ◽

pp. 34-37

Author(s):

James Fama

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Power Generation ◽

The United States ◽

Power Industry ◽

Voluntary Organization ◽

Electrical Transmission ◽

Reliability Measures ◽

The North ◽

The Us ◽

Electricity Reliability

The US–Canadian blackout in 2003 demonstrated the need for new reliability measures in the field of the power industry. The Edison Electric Institute, the trade organization for the investor-owned utilities that generate about 70 percent of the electricity consumed in the United States, is taking reliability to Congress. The voluntary organization that oversees bulk electrical transmission on the continent—The North American Electricity Reliability Council, or NERC—began to implement measures to address many of the recommendations later detailed in the report, key among them was reformatting and clarifying its reliability standards. A research insists that in order to balance power generation and demand continuously, production by generators must be scheduled and dispatched to meet constantly changing demands, and adjusted continuously.

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The nuclear power industry in the united states: Status and projections

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine ◽

10.1016/s0001-2998(88)80017-5 ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 25-35

Author(s):

Thomas J. Connolly

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

The United States ◽

Power Industry ◽

Nuclear Power Industry

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Analysis and Research on the Requirements and Applicability of “Hualong-1” Commissioning Standards

International Journal of Power and Energy Engineering ◽

10.53469/ijpee.2021.03(07).06 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 3 (7) ◽

Author(s):

Xiaoshi Jin ◽

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Chuangbin Zhou ◽

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Thermal Power ◽

Electric Power Industry ◽

The United States ◽

Power Industry ◽

Standard System ◽

Industry Research ◽

Data Collection And Analysis ◽

Source Countries

Chinese nuclear power standards are parallel due to a variety of technical routes and different technology source countries, resulting in a situation of multiple standards parallel in the domestic nuclear power industry. Through the comparative analysis of nuclear power standards in the United States and France, domestic electric power industry and domestic conventional thermal power industry, this paper seeks for the combination point with domestic nuclear power commissioning standard system, and combs and analyzes the existing standard system. Through industry research and data collection and analysis, combined with the technical characteristics of “Hualong-1”, the requirements and applicability elements of the commissioning standard system are determined, the framework of the commissioning standard system is optimized and improved, and the corresponding standard acquisition, formulation and revision plan of the standard system is formed, so as to guide the construction of commissioning standardization.

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