Download or read book Electricity Markets and Power System Economics written by Deqiang Gan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the first power plant in history was commissioned for commercial operation by Thomas Edison on Pearl Street in New York in 1882, electricity was sold as a consumer product at market prices. After a period of rapid development, electricity had become such a fundamental product that regulation was believed to be necessary. Since then, the power