Transport Pricing in the Electricity Industry
研究电力传输网络的短期管理问题，分析如何组织和定价输电网络的使用，涵盖最优定价理论、市场势力影响及欧盟的实践方案，对能源政策制定者和电力市场研究者有参考价值。
Efficiency in the management of electricity transmission networks is essential for the success of the liberalized energy markets. The paper is dedicated to the short-run management problems of these natural monopolies. It analyses how to organize and price access to and use of the transport network. After presenting the technical and institutional features of the electricity industry, the paper develops the normative approach of first-best and second-best pricing by means of nodal prices. Then the exercise of market power at some nodes and its consequences for the transport system operator are examined. The remaining part is more policy oriented, describing and analysing the practical solutions implemented in the European Union for energy transport pricing. The paper concludes with some remarks about the enforcement of antitrust rules in electricity transport. Copyright 2001, Oxford University Press.