• DocumentCode
    793517
  • Title

    California Crisis Influences Further Reforms in Latin America

  • Author

    Rudnick, Hugh

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Volume
    22
  • Issue
    8
  • fYear
    2002
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    The electric energy industry in Latin America has faced a profound transformation, with no parallel worldwide. This paper describes how the privatisation path is still being defined, but clearly the naive approach to an ideal unregulated bid-based spot exchange market has been discarded.
  • Keywords
    electricity supply industry; California; Latin America; USA; electric energy industry; electricity crisis; power industry reforms; unregulated bid-based spot exchange market; Contracts; Costs; Government; Hydroelectric power generation; Investments; Natural gas; Power generation economics; Pricing; Security; Shape;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Power Engineering Review, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0272-1724
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MPER.2002.1021357
  • Filename
    1021357