Reassessing Retail Competition: A Chance to Modify the Mix

✍ Scribed by Scott Hempling

• Book ID: 104373803
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 180 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-6190
• DOI: 10.1016/s1040-6190(01)00268-8

✦ Synopsis

A Chance to Modify the Mix

Treating competition and regulation as opposites risks losing the bene®ts of each. An analytical assessment should determine the appropriateness of competition for each of the services comprising the present electric service bundle. But regulators must also review current practices to assure that incumbent activities during the assessment period do not become incumbent advantages under competition.