The economic impact of electricity losses

Maria Costa-Campi, Daniel Daví-Arderius and Elisa Trujillo-Baute

Energy Economics, 2018, vol. 75, issue C, 309-322

Abstract: Although electricity losses constitute an important, but inevitable, amount of wasted resources (and a portion that has to be funded), they remain one of the lesser known components of an electricity system, and this despite the fact that the decisions of generators, transmission and distribution system operators and consumers all impact on them. In this paper we analyse the effects of such losses from two perspectives: from that of consumption and from that of generation.

Keywords: Regulation; Networks; Energy losses; Distributed generation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L51 L94 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2018.08.006

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