Why do we need electricity retailers?; or, can you get it cheaper wholesale?

The opportunities for retail electricity competition to provide new value-added services to retail electricity consumers are discussed. The physical attributes of electricity supply make many of the traditional "convenience services" provided by retailers in other industries irrelevant in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joskow, Paul L.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.
Format: Working Paper
Published: MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/44965