Power Industry Control System Evolution Of The International Comparative Study

This dissertation is comprised of three parts.The first part includes chapter one and chapter two. The first chapter studies the theory of industry organization for electricity industry. It first introduces the characteristics of technology and operation in electricity industry. Then it exams the industry organization of the electricity industry and the effect of electric technology and regime environment on the industrial organization of electricity industry by empirical analyzing the relative hypotheses of concrete organization methods in electricity industry in 12 different countries of OECD. Thirdly, it exams the effect of industry organization on the government structure and efficiency of operation. Lastly, it compares the principal-agent contracts under different property structures. The conclusion is different from what is commonly accepted.The second chapter scrutinizes the regulation of electricity industry. It focuses on the pricing methods and the mechanisms of price regulation that are commonly used by governments to impose price limits.The third through fifth chapters are the second part. It analyzes the industrial organizations and regulation systems of U.S.A., U.K., and China in detail and concludes that the industrial organization and regulation systems of electricity industry of any countries are restricted by the factors of economy and politics and the change of industrial organization and government regulation are the results of the balancing changes of these factors. This chapter also explicitly introduces the reform of electricity of the three countries.The sixth chapter is the third part of the dissertation. In this chapter, technology efficiency and total factor productivity of electricity industries in of 18 countries are empirically studied by the method of stochastic frontier production function. The results provide further evidence to the tests of the first chapter.