scholarly journals WHO (ELSE) BENEFITS FROM ELECTRICITY DEREGULATION? COAL PRICES, NATURAL GAS, AND PRICE DISCRIMINATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 1053-1075
Author(s):  
Jonathan E. Hughes ◽  
Ian Lange
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Price Discrimination ◽  
Electricity Deregulation

An Unsympathetic Lecture on Economic Theory and the Deregulation of Natural Gas

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand E. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Federal Reserve ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
High Price ◽  
Excess Capacity ◽  
The Us ◽  
Electricity Deregulation ◽  
Gas Price ◽  
Physical Investment ◽  
Reserve System

Just as electricity deregulation has failed in many countries or regions, it will eventually fail in many more. The reason is simple, and is generally recognized everywhere: Deregulation increases uncertainty, and uncertainty inevitably depresses physical investment. Any success experienced by electricity or gas deregulation will be exclusively due to the initial presence of excess capacity. Moreover, in Europe, ‘restructuring’ means that a competitive or partially-competitive gas-purchasing structure will find itself confronted by powerful external suppliers. Thus the already high price of gas could go higher, to the detriment of large firms as well as households and small businesses. In the US both Energy Secretary Abraham and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve System (Alan Greenspan) have expressed grave concern about the present development of the natural gas price, which they evidently regard as a threat to the US macroeconomy that is on the same plane as an escalation in oil prices.

scholarly journals Electricity Deregulation in Canada: An Idea Which Has Yet to Be Tried

2002 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Roman
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
Industry Restructuring ◽  
Canadian Experience ◽  
Electricity Deregulation ◽  
Natural Gas Industry

The author outlines the factors involved in the "deregulation " of government-controlled industries, highlighting confusion caused by that misdescription. The challenges facing the Alberta and Ontario governments in the fledgling efforts at restructuring their electricity industries are illustrated against a backdrop of lessons derived from the attempted "deregulation " of electricity in California, and from the Canadian experience with airline, telecommunications, and natural gas industry restructuring.

scholarly journals On the Teaching of Price Discrimination in Block Pricing: A Refinement

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bolong Cao
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Price Discrimination ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Pricing Scheme ◽  
Standard Picture ◽  
Block Pricing

Abstract In many textbooks, an important assumption difference between the standard picture for block pricing and the intuitive discussions on this pricing scheme is often ignored. This practice leads the students to misunderstand this picture as an illustration for price discrimination against heterogeneous buyers. In this article, I analyze how some textbook narratives can lead to this misinterpretation. Then, I provide a simple example that shows how block pricing discriminates buyers with heterogeneous demands. A real life example as applied to the transportation rates of natural gas for block pricing is also provided and discussed.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG)

AccessScience ◽  
2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Liquefied Natural Gas

Natural Gas versus Coke and Coal

1886 ◽  
Vol 21 (545supp) ◽  
pp. 8698-8699
Author(s):  
S. A. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas

Conservation of Oil and Natural Gas

1911 ◽  
Vol 105 (7) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
David T.
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas ◽  
Oil And Natural Gas

Natural Gas used for Lighting at Pisa

1918 ◽  
Vol 86 (2223supp) ◽  
pp. 96-96
Keyword(s):  
Natural Gas
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