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Incentives for transmission investment in the PJM electricity market: FTRs or regulation (or both?)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
This paper presents an application of a mechanism that provides incentives to promote transmission network expansion in the area of the US electric system known as PJM. The applied mechanism combines the merchant and ...
The political economy of solar energy
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
At the present time, solar power is not a competitive fuel for supplying electricity to the grid in the United States. However, an economic model developed by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) forecasts ...
Expansión de las redes de transmisión eléctrica en Norteamérica: teoría y aplicaciones
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
Presentamos la aplicación de un mecanismo híbrido para la expansión de la red de transmisión en los sistemas eléctricos de México, Estados Unidos y Canadá. La aplicación esta sustentada en redefinir el producto de la ...
Oil and gas in Mexico
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Mexico is a highly centralized federation. The states and municipalities are
highly dependent on federal transfers and so equally at risk to the country’s
fiscal dependence on oil. Although Mexico has become more truly ...
Power system transformation towards renewables: an evaluation of regulatory approaches for network expansion
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
We analyze various regulatory regimes for electricity transmission investment in the context of a transformation of the power system towards renewable energy. We study distinctive developments of the generation mix with ...
The basic economics of rules origin
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 1998)
This paper studies certain aspects of rules of origin. Rules of origin are nothing but regulations used to identify the country of origin of the goods of international trade. Every country requires rules of origin for ...
Removing cross-border capacity bottlenecks in the European natural gas market: a proposed merchant-regulatory mechanism
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We propose a merchant-regulatory framework to promote investment in the European natural-gas network infrastructure based on a price cap over two-part tariffs. As suggested by Vogelsang (2001) and Hogan et al., (2010), a ...
Long-run cost functions for electricity transmission
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
Electricity transmission has become the pivotal industry segment for
electricity restructuring. Yet, little is known about the shape of transmission
cost functions. Reasons for this can be a lack of consensus about ...
Toward a combined merchant-regulatory mechanism for electricity transmission expansion
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2006)
Electricity transmission pricing and transmission grid expansion have received increasing regulatory and analytical attention in recent years. Since electricity transmission is a very special service with unusual ...
The hydrocarbon sector in Mexico: from the abundance to the uncertain future
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2009)
Oil in Mexico has been the cornerstone on which the Mexican State has built upon since its nationalization. It has been the main federal income source, it has supported industrial development and has allowed the State to ...