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The Cost Structure of Regional Transmission Organizations

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  • Daniel Greenfield
  • John Kwoka

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RTOs now cover well over one-half of customers and sales of electricity in the U.S. As they have expanded in geographic coverage and functional scope, controversies have arisen about their rapidly growing costs and overall effectiveness. We model their costs, exploiting the fact that the seven existing RTOs initiated their various functions at different points in time over their roughly ten-year history. Specifically, we investigate the costs of each of the market functions administered by RTOs, the relative costliness of different RTOs in performing the same functions, the possibility of learning economies from either their individual or industry-wide experience, and economies of scale over the sampled range of RTO "output." Our results confirm the importance of some of these factors but raise doubts about others, in all cases based on systematic modeling and data analysis.

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  • Daniel Greenfield & John Kwoka, 2011. "The Cost Structure of Regional Transmission Organizations," The Energy Journal, International Association for Energy Economics, vol. 0(Number 4), pages 159-182.
    • Handle: RePEc:aen:journl:32-4-a07
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    1. Triebs, T.P. & Pollitt, M.G. & Kwoka, J.E., 2010. "The Direct Costs and Benefits of US Electric Utility Divestitures," Cambridge Working Papers in Economics 1049, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge.
    2. Mačanga Martin & Plešivčák Martin, 2014. "Geographical context of energy prices in the European Union Member States with special emphasis on the Slovak Republic," Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series, Sciendo, vol. 24(24), pages 1-25, June.
    3. Kury, Theodore J., 2015. "The impact of coordination on wholesale market participation: The case of the U.S. electricity industry," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 32(C), pages 38-44.
    4. Llorca, Manuel & Orea, Luis & Pollitt, Michael G., 2016. "Efficiency and environmental factors in the US electricity transmission industry," Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 234-246.

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