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A study on the UK electricity liberalization market : look back on 20 years

The trend toward liberalization and internationalization in economic development has caused the electricity structure of the world nations to change a great deal since 1970. It was legal that power plants were established by the private sector in the UK since 1983. As the result that "The Electricity Privatization White Paper" and "Electricity Law" were promulgated in 1988 and 1989, the British government was the first one to deploy privatization and liberalization of electricity market and implement successfully. The UK became the benchmarking of other countries because of the significant positive effect and developments. Then each government actively promoted and made needed reforms at privatization and liberalization of electricity market. It has been 20 years to advance the electricity liberalization market since 1983 in UK. It is worth to study how the effect and the dynamic process of the electricity liberalization is in UK.
This focus of the report is on the cause, background and conditions of UK electricity liberalization market and on the evaluating performance model. To make a comprehensive survey of relevant evaluating indicators, the performance of electricity liberalization in UK is excellent. No wonder The UK is the most competitive electricity market within the EU and G7 from 2001 to 2005. To sum up the work on looking back on the UK electricity liberalization for about 20 years, the key success factors are competitive market forces, energy policy, balancing mechanism, the revised law in coordination and full information. All are the reference resources for Taiwan to build the favorable liberalization model.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0703107-100934
Date03 July 2007
CreatorsHuang, Shu-yu
ContributorsStephen D. Tsai, Yu-Shan Chang, Chang-Yung Liu
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0703107-100934
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