Practices in the financing firms and approach from energy regulators The cost of capital is generally calculated as the weighted sum of the costs of different sources of financing used by the firm i.e. equity and debt, as they are traditionally understood. The Weighted [ ... ]

In recent years the drive to build solar power plants has increased. The cost of the electricity generated from solar power is much higher than for other renewable energy sources as shown in Table 1. Despite this fact solar power plants are being installed around the w [ ... ]

In the recent years, the Italian natural gas market was subject to imbalances between supply and demand, especially during winter peaks in consumption. As a short-term solution, the government had taken various measures such as implementing interruptibility clauses for  [ ... ]