The Energy Retail Market from a Customer Perspective

Werner Marnette
Additional contact information
Werner Marnette: Norddeutsche Affinerie AG

Chapter 35 in Handbook Utility Management, 2008, pp 591-604 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The general conditions for energy-intensive industrial enterprises have changed significantly since the liberalisation of the energy markets. This applies, in particular, to the German electricity market. Although formally there is competition on the market, this is obstructed by the considerable market power, strong vertical integration and persisting lack of transparency. Against this background, Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, as the largest copper producer in Europe and an energy-intensive enterprise, started in good time to concentrate on securing a longterm electricity supply as well as the continuous reduction of energy consumption and identification of energy-saving potential. This alone, however, was not enough to absorb the dramatically rising energy prices. On the contrary, politicians have the responsibility for ensuring a reliable and economical energy supply and for correcting existing misguided developments.

Keywords: energy policy; in-house production; energy efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

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:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-79349-6_35

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783540793496

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79349-6_35

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().