Economie di scala e dimensione ottimale nella distribuzione del gas: una meta-analisi

Journal title ECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E DELL’AMBIENTE
Author/s Francesco Gullì
Publishing Year 2010 Issue 2009/3
Language Italian Pages 28 P. 5-32 File size 4547 KB
DOI 10.3280/EFE2009-003001
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Scale economies in the distribution of natural gas: a meta-analysis - This paper analyses the literature on scale economies in electricity and natural gas industries. In particular a meta-analysis is carried out in order to estimate the probability of increasing returns to scale in the network industry and namely in the gas distribution. This analysis highlights that the size effect in this industry is low. There exists only about 15% probability of increasing returns to scale. In addition the paper shows that the optimal scale corresponds to around 50.000 customers.

Keywords: Size, efficiency, gas distribution, economies of scale

Jel codes: D24, L25, L95

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Francesco Gullì, Economie di scala e dimensione ottimale nella distribuzione del gas: una meta-analisi in "ECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E DELL’AMBIENTE" 3/2009, pp 5-32, DOI: 10.3280/EFE2009-003001