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Titre Régulation technique et économique des réseaux électriques
Auteur Jean-Paul Bouttes
Mir@bel Revue Flux
Numéro no 2, juin 1990
Page 43-55
Résumé anglais Questions are currently being raised concerning the organization and regulatory modes of electrical systems: is it possible, or even desirable to introduce more competition in this area? Rather than approch this difficult question from an abstract point of view, we here propose a study of how the technical and economic characteristics of electricity are linked, and the role of the actors involved in the economic, political and institutional landscape of several European countries, as well as in the United States. A rapid survey of the current physionomy of European electrical systems will allow us to compare their common and divergent points, that is, characteristics originating in the history of electricity. We then offer as a counterpoint an interpretation of the reforms currently taking place in Spain, in the Netherlands and in Great Britain, and recent debates on déréglementation in the US. It is thus possible, by emphasizing the detailed example of the conduct of the French network, to bring out the technical and economical determinants of the regulatory mode of the electrical sector. This analysis would tend to favor an evolutionist concept for the future, rather than a policy of complete rupture.
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