Competitive Electricity Markets

Dr. Fereidoon Sioshansi is President of Menlo Energy Economics, a consulting firm based in San Francisco with over 35 years of experience in the electric power sector working in analysis of energy markets, specializing in the policy, regulatory, technical and environmental aspects of the electric power sector in the US and internationally. His research and professional interests are concentrated in demand and price forecasting, electricity market design, competitive pricing & bidding, integrated resource planning, energy conservation and energy efficiency, economics of global climate change, sustainability, energy security, renewable energy technologies, and comparative performance of competitive electricity markets. Dr. Sioshansi advises major utility clients and government policy makers domestically and internationally on electricity market reform, restructuring and privatization of the electric power sector. He has published numerous reports, books, book chapters and papers in peer-reviewed journals on a wide range of subjects. His professional background includes working at Southern California Edison Co. (SCE), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), NERA, and Global Energy Decisions. He is the editor and publisher of EEnergy Informer, a monthly newsletter with international circulation. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Electricity Journal where he is regularly featured in the “Electricity Currents” section. Dr. Sioshansi also serves on the editorial board of Utilities Policy and is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy. Since 2006, He has edited 12 books on related topics with Elsevier.

Foreword, M. Pollitt
Preface, W. Pfaffenberger
Electricity market reform: Progress and remaining challenges, F.P. Sioshansi
1. Reevaluation of vertical integration and unbundling, H. Chao et al.
2. Hybrid electricity markets and different patterns of restructuring, A.F. Correlje and L. De Vries
3. Achieving electricity market integration in Europe, N. Cornwall
4. Transmission markets, congestion management & investment, H. Singh
5. The design of U.S. wholesale energy and ancillary service auction markets: Theory and practice, R. O’Neill et al.
6. The cost of anarchy in self-commitment based electricity markets, R. Sioshansi et al.
7. Market power & market monitoring, P. Adib
8. Demand participation in restructured markets, J. Zarnikau
9. Resource adequacy: Alternate perspectives and divergent paths, P. Adib et al.
10. The evolution of PJM’s capacity market, J.E. Bowring
11. Resource adequacy & efficient infrastructure investment: Evidence from Australia’s National Electricity Market, A.Moran & B.S. Skinner
12. Promoting renewable energy: Lessons learned from 20 years of experimentation, R. Haas et al.
13. Distributed generation and the regulation of electricity networks, D. Bauknecht and G. Brunekreeft
14. Global climate change and the electric power industry, A. Ford
15. Reform of the reforms in Brazil: Problems and solutions, J. De Araujo et al.