Cooperate or compete: The Swedish electricity market in transition

Brita Olerup

Energy, 1995, vol. 20, issue 12, 1237-1246

Abstract: The electricity market in Sweden in changing from being a geographic monopoly to allowing competition in areas other than transmission and distribution. When it was announced that the rules were about to change, a conflict arose between two of the larger generators concerning which of them should transmit electricity to a nearby distributor. The arguments used coincide with market theory but not with market practice. Ideally, a market consists of independent parts competing with one another to the advantage of customers, who obtain lower prices. In reality, organizations depend on one another and build social networks based on mutual trust. Such networks are essential for business and trade to develop. Preconceptions such as those shown by the parties here threaten, even before rules have been changed, to demolish an elaborate and extended system of cooperation.

Date: 1995
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/036054429500079V
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:energy:v:20:y:1995:i:12:p:1237-1246

DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(95)00079-V

Access Statistics for this article

Energy is currently edited by Henrik Lund and Mark J. Kaiser

More articles in Energy from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().