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Makawa-Mbewe, Patrick. "Rationalisation of electricity pricing in South Africa's electricity distribution industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51893.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African Electricity Distribution Industry is riddled with tariffs. Every utility in South Africa probably uses some method for allocating cost, whether it is theoretically founded or not. There are currently over 2000 different tariffs in South Africa and the need for rationalisation has been widely recognised and acknowledged. Many of these tariffs have not been the outflow of accepted methodologies but rather a function of individual utility policy and practices. There is however a dire need to standardise such methodologies in the future. A standardised methodology might be the only way to eventually rationalise the thousands of tariffs that exist in the electricity industry. Government has emphasised the importance of tariffs to be cost reflective in the future. The only possible way to reach this objective would be to determine clear and concise methods of allocating cost that can be utilised by the entire industry. This study project describes a standardised methodology for determining the cost to supply different customer categories in an electricity distributor. The methodology offers enough flexibility not to bind any party into laboursome, complex and time consuming costing activities. It does however require that the costs of a distributor are carefully investigated and all functions performed in the utility are isolated. This is referred to as ringfencing of costs.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Suid-Afrikaanse Elektrisiteitverspreidingsbedryf het veelvuldige tariewe. Elke utiliteit in Suid-Afrika gebruik waarskynlik 'n metode vir kostetoedeling, wat nie noodwendig teoreties gebaseer is nie. Huidiglik is daar meer as 2000 verskillende tariewe in Suid-Afrika en dit word alom besef en erken dat gronde vir rasionalisering bestaan. Baie van die tariewe het nie ontstaan uit die gebruik van aanvaarbare berekeningsmetodes nie, maar was eerder die gevolg van individuele beleid en praktyke van utiliteite. Daar is 'n dringende behoefte om hierdie berekeningsmetodes in die toekoms te standardiseer. 'n Standaard metode mag die enigste manier wees om uiteindelik die duisende tariewe wat in die elektrisiteitsbedryf bestaan te rasionaliseer. Die regering het die belangrikheid dat tariewe in die toekoms koste reflekterend moet wees benadruk. Die enigste moontlike manier om hierdie doelwit te bereik, is om helder en duidelike metodes vir koste toedeling te bepaal vir gebruik deur die hele bedryf. Hierdie verhandeling beskryf 'n standaard metodologie om die koste te bepaal om verskillende klantegroepe in 'n elektrisiteitsverspreider van krag te voorsien. Die metodologie bied voldoende plooibaarheid om geen party aan arbeidintensiewe, kompleks en tydrowende kostebepalings te verbind nie. Dit vereis egter dat die koste van 'n verspreider noukeurig ondersoek word en dat alle funksies wat verrig word uitgelig word. Hierna word verwys as afbakening van kostes.
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Plazaola, Prado Leonel. "An information system migration framework for the electricity industry control centers." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Electrical Systems, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-1613.
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The Electricity Industry Reforms (EIR) is a worldwidephenomenon that is inducing an intensive business orientedcontext in the organization, processes and functions of theElectricity Industry (EI). The electric power grid is nowtreated as the electricity market, the consumer as thecustomer, the power system activities are related to marketactors (i.e. generators, distributors and retailers) and theElectricity Industry Control Centers (EICC) provide theessential coordination and economic trade functions andtransactions.
The EICC are looking for solutions to introduce, amongstothers, emerging information processes in the business orientedcontext with all the Electricity Industry actors without losingthe technical reliability of the EI. The EIR is delineated as amajor change on the traditional EI relying heavily oninformation exchange amongst the market actors.
In the Central American countries, these EIR started around1996. The EICC in this region are facing the demanded changeswith information legacy systems, in operation long time beforethe EIR and considered already obsolete.
This thesis exploresand summarizes, as a researchcontribution, the main problems at the EICCs in CentralAmerica, in managing the incorporation of emerging informationproc-esses.
An Information System Migration Framework (ISMF) for theEICC is proposed as a re-search contribution and solution tothe problems identified. The ISMF here presented provides a setof steps and guidelines to follow for managing any emerginginformation processes in a systematic, feasible and reliableway. The ISMF is a continuous description of emerginginformation processes, risk assessments, requirementelicitation and specifica-tions with traceable and incrementalimplementations without completely replacing the system. TheISMF has as fundamental characteristic that provides a feasibleview of the current operation of the EICC, a continuous anditerative process of controlled changes and a systematicprocess to update the EICC operation model with a set of stepsthat are implementation independent, technology independent,process ori-ented and user centered.
The ISMFs feasibility, replicability and useracceptance has partially tested at the EICC in El Salvador andNicaragua.
Key words:Electricity Industry, Electricity IndustryReforms, Electricity Industry Control Centers, InformationSystem Migration, Information Systems Modeling andRequirements, Case Studies in the Electricity Industry inCentral America.
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Smith, Alistair J. "Maintenance scheduling in the electricity industry." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299585.
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Chernenko, Nadezda. "Essays on the Russian electricity industry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648442.
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Tinto, Easterboy Sihlangabeze. "Restructuring South African electricity supply industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4969.
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Bibliography: leaves 90-93.The primary objective of this dissertation is to describe and analyse the proposals from the different stakeholders since government called for the restructuring of the electricity supply industry (ESI) in South Africa. Secondly, this will also identify areas where there is convergence and divergence between the positions of these stakeholders. Finally, the dissertation will attempt to understand the reasons for the shift in the positions of the stakeholders.
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Gupta, Pavan, University of Western Sydney, College of Law and Business, and School of Management. "Residential sector deregulation in the electricity industry : analysis of electricity consumption patterns." THESIS_CLAB_MAN_Gupta_P.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/744.
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The research presented in this thesis aims to improve our knowledge regarding the impact of privatisation and deregulation of public service type infrastructure industries. In recent years, Australia's industry reform policies have critically relied on rapid deregulation of major utilities such as telecommunication, gas and electricity. Although several industries have been deregulated in the last two decades, our understanding regarding the impact of deregulation on residential electricity market is still developing. In order to accomplish the research, about 400 residential customers were surveyed and their electricity consumption patterns (ECP)were monitored by installing special electronic meters. The findings are discussed in detail. As an implication to policy and practice there is an urgent need for a nation-wide standard,reshaping the practices of the electricity marketing and establishing a time-dynamic ECP monitoring system. Another important implication concerns the well-founded theories in micro-economic literature. This research has established that the price of the commodities and services charged by public service type utility suppliers should not be left entirely to the market forces concerned with demand - supply equilibrium. There is an urgent need to understand the role of different socio-economic segments in contributing to the economic efficiencies of public service type assets. More efficient segments should be equitably rewarded for their contributions rather than penalised perhaps due to the lack of their bargaining power.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Gupta, Pavan. "Residential sector deregulation in the electricity industry : analysis of electricity consumption patterns /." View thesis, 2004. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20050225.104416/index.html.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, 2004."A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy" Bibliography : leaves 273-285.
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Steyn, Grové. "Restructuring the South African electricity supply industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8448.
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Bibliography: leaves 94-98.In a post-apartheid South Africa, the electricity supply industry (ESI) will be under pressure to make up the backlog in electricity provision to poor households. Simultaneously, it will have to protect its financial viability in order to maintain a low-cost electricity supply to support a growing economy. This study analyses the current structure and governance of the ESI and proposes a significant restructuring to enable these challenges to be met. It is argued that the highly fragmented distribution sector of the ESI should be rationalised, and that the industry should remain in the public sector. Questions around the governance and regulation of the ESI are identified as critical to the future performance of the industry. By drawing on international experience, a distinction is made between the roles of politics and technical expertise in the governance of the ESL On the basis of this distinction, a new governance model is developed, which is based on a contract-plan mechanism, but which relies on the role of stakeholders and an independent regulator. In this way, this thesis attempts to establish in the governance system an appropriate balance between the equity concerns of a new democratic government, and the efficiency needs of a developing economy.
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Adjepon-Yamoah, David Yaw. "Commercial risk management in the electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10832.
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The introduction of the New Electricity Trading Arrangements (NETA) in the UK from 31st March 2001 changed the nature of electricity trading from a centrally traded marginal pricing mechanism, known as the Pool, to a series of bilateral markets. This changed the nature of the risks ‘facing market participants notably, higher price volatility, no single reference price on which to base long-term contracts and potentially punitive imbalance charges for participants whose commitments were not met. It would appear that Suppliers will be the major casualties of the changes because their function under the previous system was primarily the billing and metering of customers whereas the introduction of NETA means that they must submit exact information about their demand requirements and contracted position to the System Operator, 4 hours in advance of each half-hour. Any shortfalls between expectation and metered volume will attract prohibitive imbalance charges. Accurate forecasting is essential. This thesis describes effective forecasting methodologies that can be used by Suppliers to forecast their half-hourly demand at Bulk Supply Level. Artificial Neural Networks were selected as the most effective forecasting approach from an examination of the various short-term forecasting methods and by analytical comparison with Multiple Linear Regressions. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) was optimised and configured to suit NETA’s requirements. The optimised ANN was used to forecast according to the time-of-day, and the day-of-week, to determine the most accurate configuration. Both models had their strengths, with the parallel method being more accurate but the linear, easier to implement. The present methods achieved better financial results than the current industrial standard when compared in a worked example.
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Bellhouse, Gillian Margaret. "Coal purchase analysis in the electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/13928.
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The UK Electricity Supply Industry was sold into private ownership in 1990 and was followed by the flotation of the National Coal Board in 1994. Until this time successive Governments had ensured a market for the coal produced by the National Coal Board by prohibiting the Electricity Supply Industry from purchasing foreign coal and for decades the Electricity Supply Industry had been hostage to the fortunes of the coal industry. At the time of privatisation of the Electricity Supply Industry in 1990 the Government stated that it could no longer guarantee that all of the coal consumed by the new, privately owned Generators would be from British mines. Since these changes, the conventional merit-order for the dispatch of generating plant in mixed-fuel systems has been superseded by scheduling of plant in response to commercial advantage. Gas-fired generation is now used to meet base-load demand, while coal-fired plant, traditionally a base-load generation source, is being forced to take an increasingly mid-merit position. While fuel for base-load generation is bought on long-term contracts, fuel for mid-merit generation is purchased more effectively on the medium-term market. It is therefore becoming more important for Generators to recognise the strategic issues encompassed in medium-term coal purchase and to respond accordingly. The decision to buy coal can be followed through a number of stages from the initial identification of the requirement to make a purchase, through the tendering process to the final selection of suppliers. Understanding a supplier is essential to this process and to making effective organizational buying decisions. Analysis of past performance of coal suppliers at each stage has lead to the application of supplier assessment techniques to the development of a 'Coal Supplier Grading System': Utilisation of this grading system benefits the Generator by assisting the purchaser to ensure that the best suppliers are selected while opportunities offered by new entrants into the market are not missed.
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Genc, Talat. "Some economic aspects of a restructured electricity industry." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280472.
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This thesis examines several issues that arise in restructured electricity markets. These issues include production, scheduling and forward contract decision making, capital investment decisions in uncertain environments, and equilibrium bidding in wholesale electricity auctions. In the chapter, "Supply Function Equilibria with Pivotal Suppliers", we study the impact of pivotal suppliers in supply function bidding settings. Observers of these markets have noted the important role that pivotal suppliers, those who can substantially raise the market price by unilaterally withholding generation output, sometimes play. However the literature on SFE has not considered the potential impact of pivotal suppliers on equilibrium predictions. This is a potentially important deficiency of applications of SFE to electricity markets, given the large role that pivotal suppliers sometimes play in these markets. We formulate a model in which generation capacity constraints can cause some suppliers to be pivotal. In symmetric and asymmetric versions of the model we show that when pivotal suppliers are present, the set of SFE is reduced relative to when no suppliers are pivotal. In the chapter, "Dynamic Oligopolistic Games Under Uncertainty: A Stochastic Programming Approach", we study several stochastic programming formulations of dynamic oligopolistic games under uncertainty. It is well known that if the number of state variables increases, dynamic programming becomes computationally intractable. For such games, we show that under certain symmetry assumptions, players earn greater expected profits as demand volatility increases. The key to our approach is the "scenario formulation" of stochastic programming. The examples presented in this paper illustrate that this approach can address dynamic games that are clearly out of reach for dynamic programming, the common approach in the literature on dynamic games. In the chapter, "Scenario-based Electricity-Gas Forward and Spot Pricing and Load Formulations", we propose load models and price and return formulations in specific energy markets. Existing energy models do not consider inter-relations between the trio: spot price, derivative price and electric load. Also these models, which are in the spirit of the models proposed in financial and commodity markets, ignore special characteristics of electricity, which may make the proposed models useless. In our formulations we consider these characteristics and correlations between these variables. Simulation results that we run support our modeling approaches.
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Cames, Martin. "Emissions trading and innovation in the German electricity industry /." kostenfrei, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus-25189.
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Green, Richard John. "Essays in the electricity industry in England and Wales." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337997.
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Arellano, María Soledad 1971. "Three essays on market power in Chile's electricity industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17556.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-169).
This thesis examines the incentives to exercise market power that generators would face and the different strategies that they would follow if all electricity supplies in Chile were traded in an hourly-unregulated spot market. The industry is modeled as a Cournot duopoly with a competitive fringe; particular care is given to the hydro scheduling decision. Quantitative simulations of the strategic behavior of generators indicate that the largest generator (" Endesa") would have the incentive and ability to exercise market power unilaterally. It would schedule its hydro resources, which are shown to be the real source of its market power, in order to take advantage of differences in price elasticity: too little supply to high demand periods and too much to low demand periods. In the second Chapter the following mitigation measures are analyzed: (a) requiring Endesa to divest some of its generating capacity to create more competitors and (b) requiring the dominant generators to enter into fixed price forward contracts for power covering a large share of their generating capacity. Splitting the largest producer in two or more smaller firms turns the market equilibrium closer to the competitive equilibrium as divested plants are more intensely used. Contracting practices proved to be an effective tool to prevent large producers from exercising market power in the spot market.
(cont.) In addition, a more efficient hydro scheduling resulted. Conditions for the development of a voluntary contract market are analyzed, as it is not practical to rely permanently on vesting contracts imposed for the transition period. In the final Chapter, a model that explicitly allows producers to engage in strategic behavior to congest the system's main transmission line in order to exercise market power is estimated. Results indicate that there is no pure strategy equilibrium in which one generator plays an aggressive strategy and congests the line towards the other region while the other generator passively accepts imports. Indeed, generators would follow opposite strategies. The second largest producer's position in the industry is not strong enough to exercise market power most of the time but is strong enough to restrain Endesa's attempts to congest the line.
by Maria Soledad Arellano.
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Holmes, Jane Hope. "Least-cost expansion planning in the electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/14089.
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Formerly, to meet increases in electricity demand or to replace obsolete stations, the decision to build a new power station of a particular fuel type was not based wholly on economic grounds. Often political pressure (e.g. using coal to keep mines open), national strategy (e.g. building of nuclear reactors) or government policy (e.g. introduction of hydro generation in Scotland to counter population drift) dominated the expansion planning process. With the advent of the availability of inexpensive computing power, planning based solely on economics, with calculations that are mathematically complex, repetitive and time consuming, can be applied more readily to such decision making. In addition, a wider range of factors can be taken into account. Sensitivity analysis and comparative assessments can be made easily, allowing the Planning Engineer to consider more options and to arrive at decisions with more confidence. Occasionally, however, the preferred options indicated by such planning (termed least-cost expansion planning) may be overruled through influence of externalities such as those mentioned above, e.g. political pressure. Thus, although least-cost expansion planning software will never replace totally the human involvement in the process, such software has the considerable advantage that it can be used to rank a range of options in order of economic cost. The Planner can then quantify in economic terms the effects of overriding indicated minimum-cost options by making decisions on the basis of some other grounds, e.g. governmental policy. This thesis examines the factors and techniques which are used in least-cost expansion planning. Their integration into a decision support system is described and suitable software is developed. Using realistic data a typical run of this software demonstrates ranking of minimum-cost candidates that successfully meet expected future electricity demands and planning criteria set before a run is executed. The merits of using the software in a practical application are then discussed.
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Horne, Ralph. "Regulating the environmental impacts of the electricity supply industry." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2001. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19828/.
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The electricity supply industry (ESI) in England and Wales does not operate efficiently, in terms of optimising the balance between benefits of electricity and costs associated with environmental impacts. The optimal situation would be one where such impacts are minimised per unit of electricity service used, notwithstanding cost considerations. However, the present regulatory regime fails to account sufficiently for environmental impacts. Indeed, it cannot do so at present, due to lack of objective, complete and sufficiently accurate information. The main methods currently advocated for valuing environmental impacts are based on the theory of neo-classical environmental economics. These aim to place monetary values on impacts, which can then, in theory, be used to internalise environmental externalities, by applying market mechanisms to correct for the market inefficiency. However, numerous objections have been raised and weaknesses identified, including, principally, the lack of a systematic approach and the inability of the technique to accurately value impacts which are not usually considered in monetary terms. Better regulation starts with better understanding of the issue(s) to be regulated. In this case, it requires appropriate data about values of environmental impacts. While environmental economics is not rejected outright, further improvements are required and, in any event, it must be supplemented by a systematic approach, which encompasses a means of valuing non-economic elements of value. The Environmental Analysis, Valuation and Application (EAVA) Framework proposed here has been designed and developed in order to address these requirements. It also satisfies the need for objectivity, rigour, transparency, versatility, practicality and a step-by-step, sequential procedure for dealing appropriately with environmental impacts. The EAVA Framework encompasses four separate methods which have been developed simultaneously to work together in order to address different areas of the problem. The output analysis method allows the production of a complete inventory of released incidental outputs (RIOs) which arise from the process being studied. The pathway analysis method provides a means of tracing these RIOs through the environment and generating objective data about the resulting environmental changes. The valuation method is where the only necessary subjectivity of valuation is concentrated by accommodating the views of those whose quality of life is damaged by the impacts. The unit of valuation is the "natural" unit of quality of life outcome state (QLOS), and quantification is achieved through use of the QLOS Index. The final method is the application method, where valuation data and information about unknowns or other "gaps" in knowledge or data are utilised in mechanisms to ensure decision making and operation of the process concerned correctly reflects the environmental impacts caused. It should be noted here that procedures exist throughout the EAVA Framework for identifying and quantifying "gaps". The overall result is the EAVA Framework - a single integrated process for regulating environmental impacts, from the point of origin, to the point of applying regulation.
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Zhang, Daqun. "Incentive Regulation with Benchmarking in the Electricity Distribution Industry." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/367047.
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This dissertation investigates two broad management accounting questions in the context of electric utility industry: How do regulators for electricity industry use the information generated from accounting systems to make pricing decisions? What are the economic consequences of these decisions? In Chapter 2, I review regulatory reforms and discuss existing issues of using DEA models for efficiency benchmarking in four aspects. Suggestions are given for improving the use of DEA models based on the review and discussion. In Chapter 3, I empirically investigate the effect of incentive regulation with DEA benchmarking on operational efficiency using a panel of electricity distribution firms in Brazil. In Chapter 4, I examine the effect of restructuring and retail competition on cost reduction using a sample of US investor-owned electric utilities. The effects of privatization, industrial restructuring, incentive regulation and benchmarking are effectively disentangled from one another using the research setting in Brazil and US electricity industry. In Chapter 5, I combine the idea of activity based costing and data envelopment analysis to further develop a detailed benchmarking model for incentive regulation.
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Joson, Gerardo R. "Turnaround strategies : key factors for corporate recovery in the electricity industry of New Zealand and the Philippines." Thesis, Curtin University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2391.
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This research is about the problem of identifying key factors for corporate recovery of electric utilities in New Zealand and the Philippines. Its primary objective is to learn from the experiences of three regulated government utilities and one small private distributor that are involved in the three sectors of electricity business in power generation, transmission and distribution. How these firms survived their decline problems, and managed and sustained their turnaround efforts is the focus of this study. The results indicate the importance of change management, leadership, cost reduction and financial control in reversing the decline of these firms. Also underscored are the crucial role of efficiency improvement and achievement of profit together with winning employee commitment and broad stakeholder support in sustaining the recovery effort.These comparative case studies were undertaken at a time when crises and turbulence affected the management and organisation of electricity businesses in the Asia/Pacific region, particularly New Zealand and the Philippines. Electric utilities in both countries are regulated and less vertically integrated than anywhere else in the region. Significant changes to the ownership and control of these firms and their competitive relationships over the past decade have complicated the way strategic problems and issues have to be resolved. In the meantime, threats and pressures from all stakeholders have made the management and operations of these utilities difficult.Thus, a critical review of their specific circumstances and predicaments is in order for similarly affected enterprises to avoid past errors and to replicate only the strategies that may suit them. In this regard, this work contributes to the enrichment of the existing body of knowledge in business policy and strategic management that has been fast evolving during the nineties in electric utilities around the world.
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Zang, Hailing. "Essays on empirical analysis of multi-unit auctions -- impacts of financial transmission rights on the restructured electricity industry." Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2688.
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This dissertation uses recently developed empirical methodologies for the study
of multi-unit auctions to test the impacts of Financial Transmission Rights (FTRs)
on the competitiveness of restructured electricity markets. FTRs are a special type
of financial option that hedge against volatility in the cost of transporting electricity
over the grid. Policy makers seek to use the prices of FTRs as market signals to
incentivize efficient investment and utilization of transmission capacity. However,
prices will not send the correct signals if market participants strategically use FTRs.
This dissertation uses data from the Texas electricity market to test whether the
prices of FTRs are efficient to achieve such goals. The auctions studied are multiunit,
uniform-price, sealed-bid auctions.
The first part of the dissertation studies the auctions on the spot market of the
wholesale electricity industry. I derive structural empirical models to test theoretical
predictions as to whether bidders fully internalize the effect of FTRs on profits into
their bidding decisions. I find that bidders are learning as to how to optimally bid
above marginal cost for their inframarginal capacities. The bidders also learn to bid
to include FTRs into their profit maximization problem during the course of the first
year. But starting from the second year, they deviated from optimal bidding that
includes FTRs in the profit maximization problems. Counterfactual analysis show that the primary effect of FTRs on market outcomes is changing the level of prices
rather than production efficiency. Finally, I find that in most months, the current
allocations of FTRs are statistically equivalent to the optimal allocations.
The second part of the dissertation studies the bidding behavior in the FTR
auctions. I find that FTRs?? strategic impact on the FTR purchasing behavior is
significant for large bidders ?? firms exercising market power in the FTR auctions.
Second, trader forecasts future FTR credit very accurately while large generators??
forecasts of future FTR credit tends to be biased upward. Finally, The bid shading
patterns are consistent with theoretical predictions and support the existence of
common values.
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Molefe, Pinkie Dikeletso. "Discrimination and its effects in the electricity industry / P.D. Molefe." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4770.
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Aim
This study contends and explains why discrimination in the workforce is a growing problem that has affected thousands of organisations, large and small, operating in today's global marketplace. The research is aimed at describing the perceived experiences of discrimination as well as its effects on employees within the organisation.
Method
Using a qualitative research design, interviews were used to facilitate the informal
sharing of experiences amongst employees. The purpose of this was to understand the
different experiences employees had and the impact discrimination had on the individual performance within the organisation.
Results
Results reveal that employees experience three broad categories of activities that led to experiences of discrimination, namely activities that relates to management and supervision, daily interaction between various groups from diverse backgrounds and unfair general human resource functions.
Conclusion
The results of the empirical study were discussed according to the themes of
Supervision/ Management, Human Resources/ Employee relations and Interactions. It
was found that employees were exposed to different types of discrimination, which are
explored in the literature review.Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.
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Baker, John Leon. "Planning the future of the electricity supply industry 1935-48." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642947.
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Faki, Hisham. "Energy policy, energy efficiency and the UK electricity supply industry." Thesis, Aberystwyth University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315868.
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Robinson, Terry Alan. "Essays in the regulation of the English electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.366367.
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Brierley, Philip David. "Some practical applications of neural networks in the electricity industry." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267333.
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Yang, Hongliang. "The environmental performance of the Chinese electricity industry under restructuring." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613295.
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Dobbins, Audrey H. "Implementation and delivery of Free Basic Electricity in the face of the restructuring of the electricity distribution industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4975.
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Wedgeworth, Jeffrey Brian. "An Overview of Electricity Industry Deregulation and Projects within the Competitive Retail Electric Service Industry." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1407419095.
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Redmond, Jacqueline A. "Planning, trading and competitive issues arising within the U.K. privatised power industry." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.319982.
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Shariff, Siti Salbiah Mohamed. "E-business opportunities for the electricity industry : an exploratory study of the UK deregulated and Malaysian regulated electricity environments." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2004. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21619.
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The increased use of the Internet and web technology has introduced various web based applications and strategies for businesses such as the e-Business developments. The move to an information-based economy where information has become an important value added resource, has also helped to accelerate the e-Business adoption process. In this research, e-Business is regarded as more than just technology; it encompasses a concept, ideas, and strategies to integrate individual information systems in order to create knowledge management systems for an organisation's internal processes and their activities in the supply chain. The impact and strategic significance of e-Business has been discussed widely for industries such as finance, advertising, entertainment, and travel. However, its impact on large traditional, hierarchical, monopolistic enterprises that were formerly owned by government, such as electricity, gas, and postal companies, has only had limited analysis. In order to investigate the effects of e-Business on these types of enterprises, this research has chosen the electricity industry as its focus. This research discusses the background, models, and theories of e-Business in general. Subsequently, it looks at the current structure and dynamics of the electricity industry, in particular deregulation, and analyses how industry players have adapted to the new deregulated environment. This research then investigates e-Business opportunities within the electricity industry by exploring current e-Business perceptions, approaches, barriers to implementation, and strategies of the companies operating in both the deregulated and regulated electricity environment. Using a mainly qualitative method, this research presents the findings from five UK case companies (representing electricity companies operating in a deregulated environment) and one case company from Malaysia (representing a traditional and monopolistic electricity company operating in a regulated environment). This research then provides a framework for current e-Business implementation in the electricity industry and its future potentials based on the UK and Malaysian experiences. It also provides a point of reference for other companies planning to implement e-Business as one of the ways to compete successfully in the deregulated environment.
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Covary, Theodore. "A Historical Institutionalist Analysis of the Evolution of South Africa's Municipal Electricity Sector within the Broader Electricity Supply Industry." Doctoral thesis, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32214.
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This study has been partly inspired by the fact that historical narratives on the evolution of the South African Electricity Supply Industry (ESI), have for the most part focused on the national vertically integrated utility, Eskom; with far less attention being paid to the role that the municipal electricity undertakings (MEU's) have, and continue to, play. Indeed, this is somewhat surprising if one considers that MEU's began operating more than 20 years before Eskom's 1923 formation; and perhaps this lack of focus on MEU's is compounded by Eskom's operational crisis from 2006 (threatening its ongoing viability), which has overshadowed the perilous situation that MEU's have found themselves in. The research thus has two objectives. The first is to provide a detailed historical account of the role of MEU's and their contribution to the country's ESI from their genesis; while demonstrating the linkages between Eskom, MEU's and the three tiers of government. The second then examines how from the formation of the Union (1910), two fundamental but diametrically opposing objectives continue to prevail: 1) An over-burdened, financially ‘self-sufficient', local government, whose limited scope to collect revenue means electricity surpluses must be maximised to cross-subsidise its operations; and, 2) A vertically integrated utility, mandated to generate electricity at the lowest unit price, so as to provide the energy intensive economy with a competitive advantage. These contradictions, which have endured for many decades, reached fever pitch in the last 20 years, contributing significantly to the demise of ESI reforms initiated in 2000 and abandoned in 2010. Simultaneously, they have worsened the crisis of local government, which is constitutionally mandated to deliver basic services to its constituents, whose failure to do so, in many instances now threatens national government legitimacy at the most fundamental level. Within this context, the research, (based on the premise that history and institutions matter), employs the theoretical framework of new institutionalism, as applied through the lens of historical institutionalism (HI). Here, application of HI's core tenets revolves around identifying and explaining the critical junctures which create path dependency and institutional lock-in, while also accounting for incremental change which undoubtedly exists over a 120-year period. However, the unjust social and economic history of the country, where political decisions (pre and post-apartheid) have had a disproportional impact on state entities, requires closer scrutiny. For this, a detailed conceptual framework is employed to disentangle the complex relationship that has developed between the three tiers of government and their respective interacting powers. Ultimately, in delivering a detailed historiography of municipal electricity supply, the research posits that the ESI requires deeper fundamental reform than envisaged in 2000; and that most importantly, this must take cognisance of the extent to which MEU's are embedded within local government. This, the research believes, will increase the likelihood of local government participation and acceptance; perhaps pointing to an as yet unexplored path forward out of the South African ESI's current quandary.
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Lindersson, Johansson Mathilda, Linnéa Guss, and Linnéa Haglund. "The influence of institutional forces in the Swedish electricity distribution industry." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-179781.
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Yun, Taesik. "The evaluation of power plant investments in the Korean electricity industry." Thesis, University of Salford, 2010. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26983/.
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The purpose of this thesis is to use real option methodologies to assess capital investment decisions of near future projects that will be made in Korea. I compare two base load plants burning different fuels such as coal and uranium within the CO2 allowance trading context to provide prominence to a nuclear power plant. Nuclear power plants have recently been rising to the surface as one of the leading alternatives to the generation plants using fossil fuels. To consider the flexibilities and uncertainties in a competitive market environment, I employed the real options approach, due to its superiority in dealing with uncertainties and incorporating management's flexibilities into the valuation process. Furthermore, I tried to evaluate the investment opportunity contingent on at least two underlying assets featuring different price evolution behaviours. As main pricing skeletons, I adopted the mean reversion model for the evolution of electricity prices and the gBm model for that of the COi allowance prices and construction costs of a nuclear power plant. In addition, I used the Monte Carlo simulation approach as the approximation tool to overcome a limitation of the analytic approach. Our findings confirmed that the real options approach uncovered hidden strategic value and provided critical insights to the investment decision making process. Keywords: Investment Analysis, Real Option Approach, Base Load Plant, CO2 Allowance, Electricity Price
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Su, Jifeng. "An analytical assessment of generation asset in the restructured electricity industry." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37116381.
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Aromí, J. Daniel. "Models of supply function equilibrium with applications to the electricity industry." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7184.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.Thesis research directed by: Economics. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Su, Jifeng, and 宿吉鋒. "An analytical assessment of generation asset in the restructured electricity industry." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37116381.
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Pillay, Nerisha. "An analysis of rightsourcing in the electricity supply industry / Nerisha Pillay." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8062.
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The country is currently experiencing a tight electricity schedule. The demand
for greater capacity than the country can supply is a reality. Raising
unemployment and poverty levels are a situation we contend with daily.
The aim of the study is to create a generic framework for right–sourcing in the
electricity supply industry. The various phases of strategy creation were
analysed to achieve this target. The process of identifying core business
processes was discussed. Strategic alignment is important for the success of
the Information Technology strategy; this study discussed how this could be
accomplished.
The various Information Technology sourcing strategies were examined. The
probability of a process being outsourced, stemmed from the simplicity and
repetitiveness of a transaction or process, and costs involved.
An empirical study was done with both quantitative and qualitative analysis.
The study looked at Contract Management, Information Technology Strategy
and Benchmarking.
A comprehensive right–sourcing framework was developed to assist in making
the correct decisions. This framework could guide new entrants to the ESI in
helping them shape their strategy and formulate a distinct competitive
advantage. It could assist them in meeting the growing capacity demands
faster and making a significant positive contribution to the economy.Thesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
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Meibodi, Ali. "Efficiency considerations in the electricity supply industry : the case of Iran." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/804387/.
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Malgas, Isaac. "Towards risk management in a deregulated and competitive electricity supply industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53195.
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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The energy sector of the South African economy is poised to change in extraordinary ways. In just a few short years from now, the days will be gone when generators are guaranteed of their income and where regional distributors have the monopoly in the regions that they are servicing. Other energy markets in the world, such as oil and gas, have been free of regulation for many years. More recently, local policymakers have been focussing on increasing competition in the electricity sector and in so doing, liberate electric utilities from government's long established control. The shift away from government regulation of energy will lead to something even more important than placing downward pressure on the price of a MWh. It will instigate the development of multiple trading centres and platforms that are dedicated to competition in the free trade of electricity and related products. With the deregulation of the electricity supply industry and the inevitable introduction of competition, the real risks of energy trading will be faced by generators and distributors alike. This research investigates the changes that are set to occur within the next few years, based on developments that have unfolded in countries where electricity supply industries have been privatised and utilities and distributors are managing their risks in this new competitive environment. It explains how the South African Electricity Supply Industry may change with respect to the develop of markets which provide risk cover to industry players, the practices assumed by utilities in international electricity supply industries to minimise their risk exposure, and how industry players can use derivative instruments to manage their risks better.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die elektrisiteitsvoorsieningssektor is gereed om groot veranderings te maak. Binne 'n paar jaar, sal ons die einde sien van die dae waar kragstasies gewaarborg is van hulle inkomste en waar streeksvoorsieners die monopolie het in die streke waarin hulle verskaf. Ander energie markte in die wêreld, soos die van olie en natuurlike gas, is al sonder regulering vir baie jare. Meer onlangs het beleidsrade hul tyd toegewy aan die instelling van kompetisie in die elektrisiteitsvoorsieningssektor om utiliteitsmaatskappye vry te maak van staatsbeheer. Hierdie beweging weg van staatsbeheer sal lei na iets meer as net die afwaardse druk op die prys van 'n MWh. Dit sal die begin merk van die ontwikkeling van veelvoudige verhoë wat toegewyd is aan kompetisie in die vrye handel van elektrisiteit en soortgelyke produkte. Met die deregulering en die onvermydelike indiening van kompetisie, sal die ware risikos van energie handel aanvaar word deur voortbrengers en verskaffers van elektrisiteit. Hierdie navorsing stel ondersoek in die veranderings wat van plan is om te gebeur in die volgende paar jaar en is gebaseer op die ontwikkelinge wat in lande afgespeel het waar elektrisiteitsvoorsieningsnywerhede geprivatiseer is en waar voortbrengers en verskaffers van elektrisiteit hulle risikos bestuur in hierdie nuwe mededingende sektor. Dit verduidelik hoe die Suid-Afrikaanse elektrisiteitsvoorsieningsnywerheid mag verander teen opsigte van die ontwikkeling van markte wat risiko versekering aanbied vir utiliteitsmaatskappye, die praktyke wat deur hierdie spelers toegepas word om hulle blootstelling aan risikos te verminder, en ook hoe hulle afgeleide instrumente gebruik om hulle risikos beter te bestuur.
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Scott, John Neil. "Competitiveness and specialism in the UK electricity generation industry since privatisation." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10667/.
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This thesis presents the results from an Investigation, using Organisational Ecology based techniques, into the impact of public energy policy and renewables technologies on the Electricity Generators since the industry’s privatisation in 1991. At the outset, the research goal was to understand how successive UK Governments’ energy policies could use an inferential data based approach, to enable a long-range evaluation of the factors that define energy policy and the results arising from energy policy interventions. Research and detailed investigation covered the following topics. Firstly, policy instruments, policy definition, policy formulation, policy modelling and evaluation, and the associated competition and regulatory frameworks. Secondly, the electricity sector in the UK over the period from the development and implementation of the first systems and networks in the late 1800s, to the business and technical frameworks currently used for UK electricity generation, transmission, distribution and supply. Then, the technological context of the study required an in-depth understanding of energy basics, traditional and renewable electricity generation techniques, emissions control, market trading mechanisms, environmental-based climate change, emissions trading systems and standards. Finally, understanding the academic research methods and techniques, making the selection of the most appropriate investigative theories, techniques and methods that underpinned the execution of a long-range population based study covering twenty years. Once the above had been understood, the research concentrated upon the collection, of: circa 8,000 generator company vital events, 2,000 vital events for circa 570 power plants, electricity generation cost data, EU and UK government policy and legislation, policy, macro and micro financial subsidies and incentives, macroeconomic data, UK emissions data, fuel costs, and fuel usage by the UK’s Generators. The choice of the most appropriate methods and techniques utilised for the data analysis was one of the most difficult aspects of the study, but given the nature of the data, the use of organisational ecology-based theory fragments and the field’s core methods and techniques were utilised. What sets organisational ecology apart from many social science approaches, and the reason for it becoming one of the central fields in organizational studies, is the empirical quantitative approach, which uses large-scale, longitudinal focused data collections that record the vital events surrounding corporate demography. This coupled with primary data analysis based upon the use of survival statistics differentiates the technique from most others in the social sciences. Once the theoretical baseline had been determined, it was necessary to prepare the research questions, develop the proposed theories, and develop the hypotheses to conduct the detailed research. The core research constructs adopted were: energy policy objectives and policy instrument evaluation, assessment of how market competition has been impacted by energy policy and renewables technologies and lastly determining how market competition in the electricity industry was impacted by energy policy and renewables technology. The thesis concludes with a discussion of how the research: makes a contribution to theory, makes a contribution to academic practice, makes a contribution to business practice, makes a contribution to my own work, identifies areas for further research, discusses my reflective thoughts on the doctoral journey, and finally presents my own thoughts and evaluation of the work.
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Avagyan, Vitali. "Essays on risk and profitability in the future British electricity industry." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/49204.
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This thesis analyses risk and profitability issues in the future British electricity industry through three different studies. The first study develops a novel and fully endogenous portfolio investment model for firms in a competitive electricity industry when they face uncertainties from fuel prices, demand levels, carbon price and renewable penetration. This study finds that both risk aversion and carbon price are crucial factors for investments in nuclear technology. The second study analyses the impact of the cost of capital on optimal investments. Two distinct costs of capital of a project are considered: one in the pre-development and construction (pre-operation) phase and the other in the operation phase. The pre-operation cost of capital is based on the complex and capital-intensive nature of a project, which prevents potential investors from undertaking them under high costs – this is the first driving force for investment followed by the operation cost of capital. Operation cost of capital is based on a company’s ability to generate cash flows that cover debt requirements by varying the debt-equity ratio that a firm can attain. The greater the cash-flow risk, the lower is the level of debt that the firm can include in its financing, and hence, the higher the weighted average cost of capital, given that debt generally benefits from tax shield. The third study analyses the profit risk of energy storage when it faces fuel-price risk. Specifically, it assesses the future electricity industry with different levels of renewable penetration and storage energy capacity. The study shows that energy storage profits depend on the electricity price risk when it makes profits from arbitrage and reserve provision and also shows that storage profit has a positive correlation with that of other generators, especially with profits of gas stations, and this correlation is moderated with the level of electricity demand.
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Moodley, Kenny. "Creating Leadership Efficacy Through Digital Media in the Electricity Supply Industry." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4082.
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Business leaders lack transformational leadership strategies to promote the use of digital communication in the electricity supply industry. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore transformational leadership strategies to promote the use of digital communication to mitigate electricity-related shutdowns and other electricity-related product recalls. The conceptual framework for this study aligns with general systems theory. The participants recruited in the study were business leaders, key account electricity consumers, and electricity consumers located in Johannesburg, South Africa. The rationale for the target population was their success in implementing transformational leadership strategies to promote the use of digital communication to mitigate the risk of electricity-related shutdowns. Data collection included semistructured interviews, direct observations with 14 participants, archival records/materials, and documents. Saldana's sequence of coding and data analysis technique using thematic coding and content analysis were used to determine specific themes and patterns derived from the 3 data sources. Based on methodological triangulation, 4 emergent themes evolved: business sustainability, digital media, electricity-related product recall crisis, and leadership efficacy that would assist leaders in growing a sustainable business in the electricity supply industry. The results of this study may contribute to positive social change by providing leaders with transformational leadership strategies for embracing digital media to ensure the industry's sustainability. This in turn would encourage improved economic activity, broad-based black economic empowerment, investments in health, education, environmental issues, and business opportunities for small businesses.
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Sinclair, Natalie. "Resilience in critical infrastructures : the case of the Queensland electricity industry." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2009. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35667/1/Natalie_Sinclair_Thesis.pdf.
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The reliability of Critical Infrastructure is considered to be a fundamental expectation of modern societies. These large-scale socio-technical systems have always, due to their complex nature, been faced with threats challenging their ongoing functioning. However, increasing uncertainty in addition to the trend of infrastructure fragmentation has made reliable service provision not only a key organisational goal, but a major continuity challenge: especially given the highly interdependent network conditions that exist both regionally and globally. The notion of resilience as an adaptive capacity supporting infrastructure reliability under conditions of uncertainty and change has emerged as a critical capacity for systems of infrastructure and the organisations responsible for their reliable management.
This study explores infrastructure reliability through the lens of resilience from an organisation and system perspective using two recognised resilience-enhancing management practices, High Reliability Theory (HRT) and Business Continuity Management (BCM) to better understand how this phenomenon manifests within a partially fragmented (corporatised) critical infrastructure industry – The Queensland Electricity Industry. The methodological approach involved a single case study design (industry) with embedded sub-units of analysis (organisations), utilising in-depth interviews and document analysis to illicit findings.
Derived from detailed assessment of BCM and Reliability-Enhancing characteristics, findings suggest that the industry as a whole exhibits resilient functioning, however this was found to manifest at different levels across the industry and in different combinations. Whilst there were distinct differences in respect to resilient capabilities at the organisational level, differences were less marked at a systems (industry) level, with many common understandings carried over from the pre-corporatised operating environment. These Heritage Factors were central to understanding the systems level cohesion noted in the work. The findings of this study are intended to contribute to a body of knowledge encompassing resilience and high reliability in critical infrastructure industries. The research also has value from a practical perspective, as it suggests a range of opportunities to enhance resilient functioning under increasingly interdependent, networked conditions.
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Sarhan, Alaa A. "Equity and efficiency considerations in electricity pricing : the case of Egypt." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307073.
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Dinçerler, Cantekin. "Futures risk premia and price dynamics in energy industry." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3036593.
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Rattanasak, Thanyawat Social Sciences & International Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences UNSW. "Electricity generation and distribution in Thailand: policy making, policy actors and conflict in the policy process." Publisher:University of New South Wales. Social Sciences & International Studies, 2009. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/43785.
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Many analysts have attempted to develop a systematic approach towards understanding the public policy framework in Thailand, and the impact of policies on Thai society and the environment. However, approaches so far have been limited in scope, and little has been done to investigate Thailand's electricity development policy approach, and its impact on society and natural resources in Thailand. This thesis contributes to filling this knowledge gap through undertaking an analysis of the development of Thailand's electricity industry power generation policy, its institutions and the policy process. It also examines the policy actors working within the process, and their roles, power and influence, factors that have shaped the distinctive characteristics of the electricity industry in Thailand today, an industry that is being confronted by increased opposition to its development from a range of community groups concerned with adverse environmental and social impacts on it. My research here uses Historical Institutionalism and Policy Network Analysis to guide the investigation. A qualitative research methodology, including the examination of documentary evidence and the interviewing of 25 key informants, was used to improve our knowledge of the policy process, and to reveal the nature of the conflicts that have emerged within the Thai policy-making bureaucracy, a bureaucracy that controls the electricity industry, and between these policy actors, the elected and military governments, and other parts of the Thai community. My research found that the development of Thailand's electricity generation policy has been complex; influenced bysocio-economic and political factors, as well as by external factors such as conditionalities imposed by foreign governments and multinational lending agencies. These factors have constrained the political institutions and political elites who play a key role in setting the rules for the restructuring of the industry. As Thailand has developed to become more democratic, the emergence of new groups of policy-makers, such as elected-politicians and civil society, has brought about a change in electricity policy direction, and in the structure of the industry. The research identified four key groups of policy actors participating in the Thai electricity policy arena, including first the 'old energy aristocrats'; officials in Electricity Generation Authority of Thailand (EGAT) who established the industry. They were followed by the officials in Energy Policy and Planning Office (EPPO) who had a more commercial orientation and who challenged the earlier ideas, leading to proposals to privatize the industry. Civic Society Organisations (CSOs) emerged in the 1970s to challenge the large energy projects proposed by the Government, those supported by elected-politicians, particularly the politicians from Thai Rak Thai Party that tried to take control of the industry for their own ends. The TRT interventing in the industry after it came to power in the 1990s. Each of these policy participants developed their own discourses to influence policy-making and public opinion. To reveal the nature of the challenges faced in developing the electricity industry in Thailand, this thesis focuses on a number of case studies of large electricity development projects, including the Nam Choan and Pak Mun Dam Projects, the Prachub Kirikhan Power Plant Projects, and the Wiang Haeng Coal Mine Development Project. My studies reveal evidence of the significant negative impacts that these projects had and continue to have, on the communities and environment adjacent to them, and on Thai society more generally. These problems emerged due to the fact that the policy institutions were, and still are, dominated by technocrats and political elites, with limited public participation in either the policy decisions made, or the policy development process. My thesis concludes that conflicts in relation to the electricity industry policy process are likely to grow in future years, and so makes a number of suggestions as to how these issues might be addressed.
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Shao, Bin. "China's Electric Power Industry Reform: An Empirical Investigation." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Economics and Finance, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5177.
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Electric power has become the most widely used secondary energy. As a result, the electricity industry's development will, in turn, directly influence other industries, people's daily lives, and the whole economy. China is one of the most rapidly developing economies, making it one of the biggest consumer of electricity in the world. Thus, the development of electric industry in China is not only important for the development of China itself, but also the energy pattern all over the world.
In this study, we focus on analysing the market-oriented reform in China's electricity industry after the adoption of reforming and opening policies in 1978. By following the time path, the detailed content of the reform, as it was applied and modified over time, is first introduced. Then, an empirical investigation is conducted on the major policies in the process of China's electric power industry reform. Through quantitative measurement, the contribution of each major policy is clearly defined, so that conclusions concerning the reform in the past and suggestions for its future direction can be reached and made.
It is found that both successes and deficiencies occurred in the reform process, and that China's electric industry has made significant efforts to overcome obstacles as they have been identified. However, even though great progress has been made in China's electric power industry from 1978 to 2009, more efforts are still required to finally achieve market operation in the industry. It is expected that this study can positively contribute to the development of China's electric power industry, as well as to electric power industries in other countries.
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Williams, Paul. "An investigation of neural networks for fault identification in the electricity supply industry." Thesis, Bangor University, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261950.
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Skritsovali, Konstantina. "Corporate social responsibility : a critical case study in the UK electricity industry." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2015. http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/617117/.
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The aim of this thesis is to gain an in depth understanding of the CSR discourses that take place between organizational and stakeholder actors in the UK electricity industry. Despite the controversial nature of the industry and the constantly increasing pressures that emerge from a dynamic group of stakeholders to integrate CSR actions across the organization, there is a paucity of empirical research that examines how actors attribute meaning to CSR. Acknowledging the variety of interpretations being attributed to the concept, this research seeks to investigate how the order of CSR discourse practice supports the creation of shared value between organizational and stakeholder actors. This thesis puts emphasis on the dichotomy of CSR discourses between electricity Distribution Network Operator and their stakeholders. First, the study concentrates on how organizational actors produce CSR. Second, it explores how stakeholders make sense of and interpret CSR discourses. Third, it looks to shed light on the negotiations and the relations of power that dominate the distribution and consumption of CSR. In doing so, this research employed multiple tools to capture data and embraced Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis approach to understand the socio-political, economic and cultural dimensions that shape CSR as a meaningful reality. This research contributes to the academic literature and CSR practice by exploring an area which was previously under-investigated. It contributes to the literature by visiting, examining the applicability of and updating Porter & Kramer’s (2002) framework of the convergence of interests by reflecting on organizational and stakeholder perceptions. Accordingly, the updated framework aims to serve as a tool for CSR decision-makers in the UK electricity industry when planning their CSR stakeholder engagement activities and, presents the original contribution to practice this ideographic research project makes.
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Winskel, Mark. "Privatisation and technological change : the case of the British electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.532997.
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Wolfram, Catherine D. "An empirical analysis of privatization and restructuring in the British electricity industry." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10842.
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