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In the short-term, the continuing momentum in the construction of plants and the decrease in consumption due to the economic crisis have ensured a temporary security of supply
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aDemand Response: a decisive breakthrough for Europe, How Europe could save Gigawatts, Billions of Euros and Millions of tons of CO2, Capgemini, VaasaETT, Enerdata, May 2008
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Oil price has also different drivers. Fundamentals driver such as supply-demand balance and production costs are from time to time challenged by more macro-economic drivers such as world growth or US$ strength/weakness.
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On November 2, 2008, some wind plants were de-coupled from the Spanish grid because wind was endangering network stability due to its high share of load (30%).
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Household Electricity Price Index for Europe, May 2009 – a monthly index looking at households prices in the capitals of the EU's 15 pre-2004 member countries (E-Control and VaasaETT)
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aThe switching level in 2007 was higher than 2008 but was only based on months of complete data
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European multi-client retail benchmark, a study on Cost to Serve (CtS) and Cost to Acquire (CtA) focusing on the households, September 2009
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Lewiner, C. (2010). Competitive Power. In: Lewiner, C. (eds) European Energy Markets Observatory. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0101-4_2
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