Ebook: Power Generation Investment in Electricity Markets.
Author: OECD
- Tags: Electric utilities, Electric power production, Investments, Marketing, Risk, Hedging (Finance)
- Series: Energy market reform Power generation investment in electricity markets.
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- City: Paris
- Language: English
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Most IEA countries are liberalising their electricity markets, shifting the responsibility for financing new investment in power generation to private investors. No longer able to automatically pass on costs to consumers, and with future prices of electricity uncertain, investors face a much riskier environment for investment in electricity infrastructure.