The Spanish Electricity Industry: Plus ça change …

Claude Crampes and Natalia Fabra

Cambridge Working Papers in Economics from Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

Abstract: In this paper we describe the Spanish electricity industry and its current regulatory regime. Special emphasis is given to the description and discussion of market design issues (including stranded cost recovery), the evolution of market structure, investment in generation capacity and network activities. We also provide a critical assessment of the 1997 regulatory reform, which did not succeed in introducing effective competition, but retained an opaque regulation which has been subject to continuous governmental interventionism. Furthermore, the implementation of the Kyoto agreement could show the lack of robustness of the regulatory regime.

Keywords: Spain; electricity; market design; generation; network activities; regulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L4 L5 L94 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2005-01
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