Electricity supply: Corruption and reliability

Bribes, Bureaucracies and Blackouts: Towards Understanding How Corruption at the Firm Level Impacts Electricity Reliability

This paper looks at whether bribes for electricity connections affect electricity reliability. Using detailed firmlevel data, we estimate various specifications based upon repeated cross-sections and means-based pseudopanels to show that bribes are closely related to poorer electricity reliability. We find that the propensity to bribe for an electricity connection is associated with an increase...

Secure and Efficient Electricity Supply

Electricity Network Reliability Optimization

Electricity distribution networks are subject to random faults. On occurrence of a fault in the distribution network, the circuit breaker on the faulty feeder trips, which disconnects supply to all customers connected to that feeder. Once the fault is located, the faulty component is isolated and then repaired. The cost of isolating and repairing faults depends on the way the network is configu...

Competition in Retail Electricity Supply

Electricity supply and hydropower development in Switzerland

Introduction According to the Swiss Energy Strategy 2050, which takes into account the phase out of the existing nuclear power plants, the mean annual hydropower production must be increased by 1.5 TWh/a under present framework conditions, eventually reaching 3.2 TWh/a if conditions are optimized (SFOE, 2016). In view of environmental and socio-economic constraints, this foreseen increase is ex...