Abstract

The paper gives an overview of the electricity restructuring process and its components. Portugal is presented as a representative case of a restructuring process, moving from a public monopoly situation to a moderate liberalisation required for the completion of the European Electricity Internal Market. An analysis is made regarding mechanisms explicitly created for the promotion of energy efficiency as for possible inherent ones. It is shown that further technical and institutional developments have to be carried out to implement these mechanisms.

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Panel 1: Policy (incentives, normative measures, policy mixes to achive CO_2 reduction)

Panel 2: Technologies and Products (innovation, marketing, market transformation)

Panel 4: Environmental Perspective (externalities and life cycle approaches, local and global impacts and incentatives)

Panel 3: Dynamics of Consumption (social and cultural perspectives, actors and their interactions)

Panel 5: Land use,Transportation and infrastructure (urban and regional planning, approaches to change in well entrenched systems)