Network depreciation and energy market disruption: Options to avoiding passing costs down the line

Garth Crawford

Economic Analysis and Policy, 2015, vol. 48, issue C, 163-171

Abstract: Traditional monopoly regulation as applied to the Australian electricity and gas network sector effectively presumes future consumers will meet a substantial proportion of the capital costs of long-lived network investments made today. Yet changes in demand, technology and cost conditions make this presumption less certain than in the past. These changes are potentially putting current approaches, and effectively the traditional ‘regulatory compact’, under pressure.

Keywords: Monopoly regulation; Access pricing; Economic regulation; Technology disruption; Depreciation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eap.2015.11.004

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