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Perspectives on Merchant Markets - Serious Stress Masked by a Temporary Surplus of Capacity

This NEI paper describes current conditions in the deregulated, "merchant" electric power markets in the United States, and argues that these markets are not producing price signals sufficient to stimulate investment in new generating capacity or to support continued operation of existing electricity generating plants.