Determinants of Market Power in Electric Power Market of Rural Areas in Nigeria
Keywords:
Market Power; Energy Supply; Nigeria; Market Structure; Rural AreasAbstract
Electricity is central to socioeconomic growth and development of any economy. And, the electrical power sector of many economies has witnessed reforms in recent time, transforming into competitive and or oligopolistic market structure. In any case, energy pricing subsist as a challenge across the power value chain. This study focused identifying the determinants of market power of energy distributing operation and rural area consumers in the power retail market in Nigeria’s present oligopolistic power market structure. Adopting a production function model and econometric analysis of selected power sector time series variables between 2000-2017, the study discovered that electrical power generation, rural electricity access and energy consumption in Nigeria are though essential but do not ultimately and significantly determine market power of competing firms in the electric power market in Nigeria. It is concluded that evidence of the importance of market power for competing firms in the electric power conduct in terms of energy pricing and cost decisions is auspicious considering their prevailing market challenges. The study therefore recommend amongst others for exclusive regional or sub regional power chain structural transformation of Nigerian electrical power in order to help build efficient and effective energy supply thereby elicit information/data for control, improvement, competition and researches in the sector while Future research on market power in electrical power market is encourage on assumptions.
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Nigerian Electricity Market. Energy and Power. 2(3): 24-32
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Consumption in Nigeria to Support Energy Transitions. Sustainability.10 (1440)1-22
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Mortality Rate in Nigeria.Review of Public Administration and Management.6 (11)51-60
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Consumption and Nigerian Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis. European Scientific Journal. 9(4)25-40
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Spending Affect Unemployment In An Emerging Market? Journal of Risk governance and control: financial markets and institutions.7(1)1,45-59
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Way Forward. Report of Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) Abuja, Nigeria.pp.1-32
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687,1-21. doi:10.3390/su8070687
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Technologies in rural areas of Pakistan. Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmental Effects,. Pp.1-23. DOI: 10.1080/15567036.2019.1588428
Simpasa A.M. (2010). Characterising Market Power and its Determinants in the Zambian
Banking Indudstry. Munich Personal RePEc Archive. Paper No. 27232.PP. 1-29
Spodniak, P. and Bertsch, V.(2017). Determinants of power spreads in electricity futures
markets: A multinational analysis, ESRI Working Paper, No. 580, The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin. Pp. 1-32
Turcik M. , Oleinikova I., Junghans G. and Kolcun M. (2012).Methods for Estimation of
Market Power in Electric Power Industry. Latvian Journal of Physics and Technical Sciences. 2(N 2)14-23
Ubi P.S., Effiom L., Okon E.O. and Oduneka A. E.(2012). An Econometric Analysis of the
Determinants of Electricity Supply in Nigeria. International Journal of Business Administration. 3(4)72-82
Usman O Y, Abdullah M K, Mohammed A N (2019). Estimating Electricity Consumption in
the Commercial Sector of Nigeria’s Economy .International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering .7(6S5) 1594- 1600
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