Water and Energy Abstracts
  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3

Towards an optimum electricity system – Moving on from centralized models

  • Author:
  • Jussi Heikkinen
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 101 to 101

(Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production, March-April 2006, pp. 27–31).

Abstract

Centralized electricity systems have never operated to maximize benefits to consumers. But the development of better, decentralized models – for developing countries in particular – cannot rely solely on the application of market forces. We also need to get policies and regulation right, suggests author.

Keywords

Centralized electricity systems, Decentralized models, Peak power problems