The Collaborative Research Project

Subject:

Regulatory deficits and Regulatory Reforms in Israel: The case of electricity

Aims: to provide a comprehensive picture on electricity regulatory reforms in Israel

 

Major Research Questions:

1. What are the various regimes that govern the provision of these electricity?
2. What are the forces that are responsible for changes and/or stagnation in the provision of electricity?
3. What are the outcome of the change/stagnation in the electricity regime?

Background for the study of regulation reform in electricity:

The History of Electricity: An overview

Visit the Israeli Public Utilities Authority Web Site

Visit the Israeli Electricity Monopoly Web Site

Review the Electricity Law - 1996

Clips of Newspaper articles on Israeli Electricity Reform (html), Word (rtf) version

Historical Prespective on the regulation of utilities:

Understanding Utilities- An overview

Armstrong Christopher and Nelles Henry Vivian,Monpoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian utilities, 1830-1930, University of Toronto Press, 1986.

Glaeser G. Martin, Public Utilities in American Capitalism,The Macmillan Company, New York, 1957.

Foreman-Peck James and Millward Robert (eds.), Public and Private Ownership of British Industry, 1820-1990, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994.

Current Policy Prespective:

Organisation for economic Cooperation and Development, The OECD Report on Regulatory Reform, Volume 1 : Sectoral Studies, Paris, 1997.

Some Examples from the British Experience:

Some Interesting Sites on electricity reform in the world:

The Office for the Regulation of Electricity & Gas, OFREG (Britain) , Contributed by Gadi Faran

Office of Electric Power Regulation (USA, Federal), Contributed by Gadi Faran

The British Consumer's Committee for Electricity, Contributed by Gadi Faran

Electricity Deregulation: Separating Fact From Fiction in the Debate Over Stranded Cost Recovery , Contributed by Ilia Zatcovetsky

A survey of electricity reform in the world, Contributed by Gadi Faran

World Energy Forum on Energy Regulation, Contribtuted by Eli Yahav

Contributions by visitors are welcomed: levi@poli.haifa.ac.il

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