Sommario:
  • Performance measurement
  • Introduction
  • Productivity
  • Partial productivity
  • Total factor productivity (TFP)
  • Data envelopment analysis (DEA)
  • Stochastic frontier analysis
  • Productivity measurement in electricity
  • The overall price level
  • The structure of prices
  • Pricing in electricity
  • Financial viability
  • Service quality
  • Approaches to regulation
  • Rate-of-return (or cost-of-service) regulation
  • Price and revenue capping - origins and objectives
  • Implementation problems of CP1-X
  • Establishing the initial situation
  • Extent of initial cost recovery
  • Extent of cost inefficiency
  • Inefficiency of the structure of prices
  • The setting of X
  • The regulatory period (re-setting X) and the 'glide path
  • Service quality
  • Overall assessment
  • Yardstick regulation
  • Conclusions
  • Performance measurement and regulation are related
  • Performance measurement is difficult but advancing
  • Pricing structure is important
  • Not all regulation is incentive regulation
  • Cap prices not revenue
  • Importance of X
  • Timing of regulatory re-sets is important
  • WACC and DORC are difficult to avoid
  • Yardstick regulation is informationally demanding.