Fixed and variable costs: theory and practice in electricity

Abstract

Fixed and Marginal Costs in Electricity Markets lays out clear cost methodologies for understanding marginal price structures, further cementing electricity's role as an asset class with fixed and variable costs. This work presents a global recasting of electricity market design and will be of direct use to practitioners, academics, commentators, planners, and policy makers in electricity. Harris places electricity firmly in the canon of the microeconomics and econo-engineering of costs, from bridges to broadband infrastructure. His findings and research offer a fresh alternative to prevailing policies and regulations.