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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.
Full textENGLISH 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.
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.
Full textThe 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.
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.
Full textChernenko, Nadezda. "Essays on the Russian electricity industry." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648442.
Full textTinto, Easterboy Sihlangabeze. "Restructuring South African electricity supply industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4969.
Full textThe 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.
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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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.
Full text"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.
Steyn, Grové. "Restructuring the South African electricity supply industry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8448.
Full textIn 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.
Adjepon-Yamoah, David Yaw. "Commercial risk management in the electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/10832.
Full textBellhouse, Gillian Margaret. "Coal purchase analysis in the electricity supply industry." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/13928.
Full textGenc, Talat. "Some economic aspects of a restructured electricity industry." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280472.
Full textCames, Martin. "Emissions trading and innovation in the German electricity industry /." kostenfrei, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:83-opus-25189.
Full textGreen, 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.
Full textArellano, 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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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.
Full textHorne, Ralph. "Regulating the environmental impacts of the electricity supply industry." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2001. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/19828/.
Full textZhang, 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.
Temple University--Theses
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.
Full textZang, 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.
Full textMolefe, Pinkie Dikeletso. "Discrimination and its effects in the electricity industry / P.D. Molefe." Thesis, North-West University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/4770.
Full textThesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2010.
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.
Full textFaki, 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.
Full textRobinson, 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.
Full textBrierley, 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.
Full textYang, 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.
Full textDobbins, 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.
Full textWedgeworth, 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.
Full textRedmond, 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.
Full textShariff, 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.
Full textCovary, 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.
Full textLindersson, 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.
Full textYun, Taesik. "The evaluation of power plant investments in the Korean electricity industry." Thesis, University of Salford, 2010. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/26983/.
Full textSu, 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.
Full textAromí, 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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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.
Full textPillay, Nerisha. "An analysis of rightsourcing in the electricity supply industry / Nerisha Pillay." Thesis, North-West University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/8062.
Full textThesis (M.B.A.)--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012.
Meibodi, Ali. "Efficiency considerations in the electricity supply industry : the case of Iran." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/804387/.
Full textMalgas, Isaac. "Towards risk management in a deregulated and competitive electricity supply industry." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/53195.
Full textENGLISH 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.
Scott, John Neil. "Competitiveness and specialism in the UK electricity generation industry since privatisation." Thesis, Durham University, 2014. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10667/.
Full textAvagyan, Vitali. "Essays on risk and profitability in the future British electricity industry." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/49204.
Full textMoodley, Kenny. "Creating Leadership Efficacy Through Digital Media in the Electricity Supply Industry." ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/4082.
Full textSinclair, 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.
Full textSarhan, 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.
Full textDinçerler, 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.
Full textRattanasak, 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.
Full textShao, Bin. "China's Electric Power Industry Reform: An Empirical Investigation." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Economics and Finance, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/5177.
Full textWilliams, 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.
Full textSkritsovali, 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/.
Full textWinskel, 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.
Full textWolfram, 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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