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Evolution of Global Electricity Markets: New Paradigms, New Challenges, New Approaches
Amid a back drop of rising energy prices, concerns about environmental degradation and the introduction of distributed sources and smart grids, increasingly stringent demands are being placed on the electric power sector to provide a more reliable, efficient delivery infrastructure and more rational, cost-reflective prices. As a result, electricity market reform was implemented in a number pf countries including Chile, England and Wales in the late 198os and 199os, followed later by a number of states in the United States, the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand. While some market reforms were deemed successful and proved functional, others experienced problems.rn However, electricity markets have continued to evolve in response to new challenges and new priorities over time. Evolution of Global Electricity Markets covers virtually every elecctricity market in the world, including the all-important BRIC countries – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – and provides an up-to-date assessment of the issues facing global electricity markets and how they are being addressed by local experts.rnKey futures : rn• Features a unique global perspective from 57 recognized experts and scholars around the world, offering opportunities to compare and contrast a wide range of experiences from electricity markets.rn• Examines the critical issues facing government policy makers in different parts of the world and how electricity markets are being modified and adjusted in response to changing needs and prioritiesrn• Explains the latest challenges facing markets and market operators including capacity and energy markets, integration of increasing amounts of intermittent renewables into wholesale markets, mandatory requirements to migrate to low carbon electricity mix in the future and a host of other issues depending on government priorities in different parts of the world
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