Liberalization and customer behavior in the Portuguese residential retail electricity market

Mohammad Ali Fotouhi Ghazvini, Sergio Ramos, João Soares, Rui Castro and Zita Vale

Utilities Policy, 2019, vol. 59, issue C, -

Abstract: The final step that Portugal is taking to reach a fully liberalized electricity market is the deregulation of the retail market by phasing-out regulated electricity prices and reducing the administrative burdens in this area. These attempts are done to promote the entrance of companies into the retailing business and to actively engage the end-users in the market. This analysis shows that despite high consumer switching rates during the 2013–2015 period, the retail market in Portugal is still highly concentrated. The retail rates are also not following the changes in the wholesale market price.

Keywords: electricity market; Market liberalization; Retailer; Retail market; Wholesale market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957178717301522
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:juipol:v:59:y:2019:i:c:7

DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2019.05.005

Access Statistics for this article

Utilities Policy is currently edited by Beecher, Janice

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