Changing the regulation for regulating the change: Innovation-driven regulatory developments for smart grids, smart metering and e-mobility in Italy

Luca Lo Schiavo, Maurizio Delfanti, Elena Fumagalli and Valeria Olivieri

Energy Policy, 2013, vol. 57, issue C, 506-517

Abstract: For a long time considered as technologically mature, electric systems are now facing a period of rapid evolution, inspired by climate change concerns. Several studies show that current regulation of natural monopolies does not offer sufficient incentives for network operators (and network users) to participate in this process.

Keywords: Incentive regulation; Innovation; Smart grids (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.02.022

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