Étude de cinq grandes tendances de développement dans le secteur énergétique: quels sont les bénéfices pour les consommateurs? (in French only)

Author

Martin Brunelle

Organization

Union des consommateurs

Published

2000

Summary

This project researches documentation and analyses certain tendencies such as restructuring and deregulation in both the British and US electricity industries, and discusses the advantages, impacts and costs of these options in terms of the Canadian market . The research was conducted based on five new marketplace trends: 1) inversed factorization, 2) dispersed energy resources (distributed production), 3) regrouped energy purchasing (energy pool), 4) fuel cells, and 5) pre-payment meters. The authors come to several conclusions, including: the benefits of fuel cells over fossil fuels, the benefits of pre-payment meters for companies as they allow for real-time pricing, and the disadvantages of creating distributed production in Canada due to the Canadian energy sector frame work.

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OCA Funded Research
This research received funding support through the Office of Consumer Affairs' Contributions Program.

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Source: Consumer Policy Research Database