Incluye bibliografía

Pte.1. Introduction -- 1. Electrical energy: facts, problems and prospects / Marcel Boiteux -- Pte.2. Price policy: 2. The general principles of rate-fixing in public utilities / Gabriel Dessus -- 3. Marginal cost pricing / Marcel Boiteux -- 4. Peak-load pricing / Marcel Boiteux -- 5. The determination of costs of expansion of an interconnected system of production and distribution of electricity / Marcel Boiteux and Paul Stasi -- 6. The tarif vert of électricité de France / Marcel Boiteux -- 7. Some economic effects of the tarif vert / Pierre Massé -- Pte.3. Operating policy: 8. Instructions for the optimum management of seasonal reservoirs / Georges Morlat -- Pte.4. Investment policy: 9. Electrical investments / Pierre Massé -- 10. The choice of plant and equipment for the production of electric energy / Marcel Boiteux -- 11. Application of linear programming to investments in the electric power industry / Pierre Massé and Robert Gibrat -- 12. Long-term programming of electrical investments / Pierre Massé and F. Bessiere -- Appendix: biographical notes and selective bibliography.

This collection of essays is the foirst systematic and extensive treatement of the economic analysis required for practical application of marginal cost pricing. James Nelson describe the economic principles employed by a firm, Electricité de France, to determine pricing, operating and investment policies. They show the interrelationship of price, operating and investment decisions and how each may be framed in a theoretically valid and quantifiable manner.