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| | Electricity retailing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Electricity retailers now provide fixed prices for electricity to their customers and manage the risk involved in purchasing electricity from spot markets or electricity pools. | | | Electricity retailing in the period from approximately 1890 to 1990 consisted of managing the connection, disconnection and billing of electricity consumers by the local monopoly supplier. | | | Electricity retailing began at the end of the 19th century when the bodies who generated electricity for their own use made supply available to third parties. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_retailing
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| | Electricity retailers are required to inform consumers of both the contract rate and the new pricing an eligible consumer would pay without a contract. | | | Electricity retailers are separate companies and not part of local distribution utilities. | | | Electricity retailers must be licensed by the Ontario Energy Board and must follow a code of conduct set out by the Board. |
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http://www.oeb.gov.on.ca/html/en/communications/fs_electricityretailing.htm
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| | Issues Arising at Ministry's Forum on Amendments to the Electricity (Information Disclosure) Regulations |
| | electricity retailers would collect line charges on behalf of the line business (that is, act as an agent for the line business) in which case final customers would be line charge trade debtors in the line business's accounts. | | | Where incumbent companies entered into conveyance agreements with competing retailers, the implication of allocating the majority of customer service and billing activities to the electricity retailing business is that it would be the incumbent's electricity retailing business, rather than its line business, which would bill final customers for line charges. | | | Transfer payments between generation and electricity retailing businesses: One attendee queried whether it was necessary to require disclosure of transfer payments between the generation and electricity retailing businesses. |
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http://www.med.govt.nz/ers/inf_disc/forum012.html
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| | Western Power : Deregulation - Frequently Asked Questions |
| | An electricity retail business is responsible for purchasing electricity in the wholesale market and managing associated financial risks. | | | All retailers will be required to comply with the relevant legislation and regulation governing the electricity sector. | | | All retailers are required to have complaint resolution procedures in place, and in the first instance, you should contact your retailer if you have a complaint. |
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http://westernpower.com.au/business/contestability/deregulation_faqs.html
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| | The purchase by the generators of retail market share must therefore be seen both as a means to speed the privatisation of the electricity market and to discredit the remaining state-owned generators to provide an excuse for their privatisation. | | | The Institute warned that any falls in retail electricity prices would not impact greatly on the cost of living, so the main benefits may instead be in standards of service, and flexibility in billing options and methods. | | | Southpower Southpower’s first attempt to sell its retail business, after it became clear the electricity reforms were inevitable, was to sell it to a company which would be the country’s biggest energy retailer, and which would still be local government controlled. |
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http://canterbury.cyberplace.org.nz/community/CAFCA/publications/Electricity/PowerFrenzy.doc
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| | Electricity Industry Restructuring: The State of Play (Research Paper 14 1997-98) |
| | The retailers bill their customers for the electricity consumed and pay for the electricity purchased in the wholesale market. | | | Generators and retailers now trade electricity in a competitive wholesale market (NEM1) as contestability (the right of the electricity consumer to choose their electricity retailer) is phased in over time, while transmitters and distributors charge regulated tariffs for transporting the electricity to customers. | | | The retailers also bill their customers for the distribution charges levied by the distributor supplying the customer and pass the resultant distribution income to the distributor. |
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http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp14.htm
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| | Retailing Report |
| | While retail electricity has not received as much recent regulatory scrutiny as regional transmission, standard market design, market power mitigation and management of the spot market, it has continued to be front-page news in many jurisdictions. | | | A question of importance to those working in the retail side of the electricity business is whether, in fact, the benefits of deregulation will be there for residential customers. | | | We do have choices to make about how to provide electricity in a way which benefits the customers, takes into account their preferences and adheres to the principle that 'if you can do no good, at least do no harm'. |
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http://www.caem.org/website/pages/retailing.htm
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| | University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives Discussion Paper No 2 |
| | A purchasing co-operative would be able to negotiate with retailers, distribution companies and generation units for the supply of power to their members. | | | Three existing electricity co-operatives in Victoria are noted, and the prospects for the further development of a co-operative sector in electricity are assessed. | | | Their activities encompass the generation, distribution, and retailing of electricity. |
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http://www.wisc.edu/uwcc/info/i_pages/elech.html
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| | Branding Electrons - American Marketing Association - www.marketingpower.com |
| | Electricity retailing is often seen as a scrappy commodity business trading only on price. | | | Electricity retailers need to understand the preferences of their potential customers. | | | Clearly, this approach could be an opportunity for electricity retailers in Spain. |
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http://www.marketingpower.com/content17915.php
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| | Retail Choice |
| | NZ's largest electricity retailer National Gas Corporation (which had purchased the electricity retail business when Canada's Trans Alta quit New Zealand, had recently re-branded itself OnEnergy [sic] to escape the bad reputation its service had given the Trans Alta brand, and which had comparatively negligible generation and was inadequately hedged) attempted to raise retail prices. | | | Dunedin Electricity and United Electricity presented Government with a blueprint for retail competition. | | | In the following 8 months all 34 electricity distributors sold their generation assets and retail businesses; most were bought by the soon-to-be-separated Government generation companies. |
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http://www.electricity.co.nz/choice.htm
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| | General Sekiyu's case has raised a question: "Is it necessary to liberalize the retailing of electricity at the cost of a possible stoppage of electric power?" What makes the issue more complex is that the withdrawal of General Sekiyu has raised a question of whether it was a simply environmental problem. | | | If IPP's are the result of the liberalization of the hardware front, the liberalization of the retailing of electricity represents the software front. | | | It means that the liberalization has created a wholesale electricity market equivalent to the capacity of six atomic power generators. |
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http://www.usc.edu/isd/archives/dsjp/summaries/1999/April/Sm990414.doc
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| | CommentWire by Datamonitor - UK utilities: beware of multi-tasking |
| | Powergen paid GBP1.146 billion for Midlands Electricity, which in 2002 had revenues of GBP402 million, a net income of GBP99 million and a net margin of 25%. | | | The contrast between the NGT sale and Aquila's [ILA] disposal of the Midlands Electricity distribution business - where there were a handful of serious bidders and Powergen won the race almost by default - could not be more marked. | | | It may be possible for a multi-utility distribution operator to improve on this performance, but this strategy brings a significant risk to the relatively safe world of UK regulated network assets. |
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http://www.commentwire.com/commwire_story.asp?commentwire_ID=5347
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| | HB 1217 establish growth-based renewable energy standards... |
| | Each electric utility shall submit to the commission an annual report that provides information relating to the actions taken to comply with this Act including the costs and benefits of expenditures for renewable energy. | | | Growth or reduction in energy use for subsequent reporting periods is determined by averaging the number of kilowatt hours sold by the electric utility during the last three completed calendar years and subtracting the average for the previous reporting period. | | | The commission shall also analyze the effectiveness of utilizing any regional system of renewable energy credits in existence at the time of its rule-making process and determine whether the system is governed by rules that are consistent with the rules established under this Act. |
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http://legis.state.sd.us/sessions/2005/bills/HB1217p.htm
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| | This exceptional performance of Dunedin Electricity and of other separated "line businesses" resulted in a decision by central government in mid-1998 that all line businesses should be separated from energy activities. | | | This company was acquired by Dunedin City in 1907 and the City then commenced electricity distribution and subsequently appliance retailing; operating them as an arm of local government. | | | 1998 (July) the "Electricity Industry Reform Act" is passed, and requires ownership separation of "wires" and "supply" businesses. |
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http://www.electricity.co.nz/profile.htm
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| | Electricity Reform Abroad and U.S. Investment, Chapter 3 Endnotes |
| | Corporatized - the entity will remain in the public sector with a board nominated by the states but their functioning and legal obligations are identical to those in the private sector. | | | Choice of Electricity Retailer: For Customers with Consumption Greater than 750 MWh per year (Victoria: Office of the Regulator-General, Victoria, February 1996). | | | The Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Scheme contributes 11 percent of the total electricity generation in Australia. |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/pgem/electric/ench3.html
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| | Direct Energy gets approval for Alberta gas and electricity retail business |
| | "We are not seeking to make money on the retail customers, we are simply seeking to recover reasonable and prudent costs associated with delivering the retail function," said Topp. | | | Although the sale was announced last December, Atco actually put its retail businesses on the block back in the spring of 2001. | | | Direct Energy said it would seek only "fair" costs associated with unbundling the distribution and retail business associated with gas and electricity. |
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http://www.electricityforum.com/news/dec03/directenergy.html
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Japan panel confirms power retail liberalization plan |
| | Japan partially liberalized electricity retailing in March 2000, allowing non-power utilities to supply electricity to large-lot users, such as high-rise buildings and factories, but not to households. | | | 26-04-02 A panel under the Advisory Committee for Natural Resources and Energy confirmed a plan to fully liberalize electricity retailing business in Japan. | | | Minami serves as head of the Federation of Electric Power Companies. |
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http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts22043.htm
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| | Electricity TutorGig.co.uk - The Tutorial Website |
| | TXU Energy offers great services that allow you to control how and when you pay your home electric bill. | | | The line charge figures contained in this Schedule represent the total (fixed and variable) cost of electricity transmission and distribution for an average domestic consumer (8,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) per annum) in cents per kWh (c/kWh). | | | Electricity, Quantity of electricity, Electricity retailing, Electricity market, Electricity liberalization (More... |
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http://www.tutorgig.co.uk/searchweb.jsp?keywords=Electricity
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| | SSRN-Markets for Electricity in Europe by Richard Green |
| | Competition in electricity retailing may discourage retailers from signing long-term contracts in future. | | | Competition in the electricity industry requires properly functioning wholesale markets. | | | The different market designs can all produce efficient outcomes, if not hindered by market power. |
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http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=443482
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| | petrolpump.co.in : energy sources, Electric power |
| | In some countries, wholesale electricity markets operate, with generators and retailers trading electricity in a similar manner to shares and currency. | | | Today, Tesla's alternating-current electric power system is still the primary means of delivering electrical energy to consumers throughout the world. | | | Electric power, often known as power or electricity, involves the production and delivery of electrical energy in sufficient quantities to operate domestic appliances, office equipment, industrial machinery and provide sufficient energy for both domestic and commercial lighting, heating, cooking and industrial processes. |
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http://www.petrolpump.co.in/energy-sources/electric-power.htm
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| | Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Japan to map out guidelines on electricity retailing |
| | The ministry decided to map out the guidelines jointly with the Fair Trade Commission as there have been some cases in which electric utilities apparently blocked new entrants into the industry after the government partially liberalized electricity retailing in March 2000, the officials said. | | | The guidelines will clarify rules in cases where an electric utility and a newcomer jointly supply electricity to the same user, in order to prevent disputes between the two parties. | | | Japan to map out guidelines on electricity retailing |
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http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/news/nts21261.htm
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