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Proposal for reviewing the Regulation on trans-European Networks for Energy (TEN-E) : assessment and recommendations

Energy networks play an essential role in enabling competition, thus improving energy affordability, and in supporting decarbonisation of energy demand and security of supply....

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Ronnie  Belmans Alberto Pototschnig ECSM
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In hot water? : issues at stake in the regulation of French water public services

In France, private firms manage the majority of water services but there is still a large part of water services under direct management. Such a diversity of governance forms allows for efficiency and quality benchmarking between direct and delegated management, and raises questions about the determinants of the choice of the local government to manage or delegate, and to switch from a governance model to the other. This paper reviews the literature on these issues in France. Moreover, the paper identifies several hot issues deserving further research such as scale and scope economics, and the implementation of social tariffs or increasing block tariffs.

PORCHER, Simon, In hot water? : issues at stake in the regulation of French water public services - hdl.handle.net

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