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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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