Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities
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Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities
(Kobe University monograph series in social science research / series editor, Takashi Yanagawa)
Springer, c2021
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is a study on the Japanese city gas industry, which has been rapidly liberalized in recent years. Especially, it focuses on the background, reasons, methods, and effects of the privatization of publicly owned city gas utilities in Japan. In Japan, after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the liberalization of the electric power and gas business has progressed rapidly. There are a number of studies on the reform of Japan's electricity market, but there are few studies on city gas business.
This book describes the state of Japan's public city gas utilities and the necessity of their privatization. And it explains the role of concession as a method of privatization. Then it verifies that the effects of past privatization cases are insufficient. The book also covers deregulation of public utilities in Europe, which triggered Japan's liberalization of its energy and other public utility sectors, and privatization of electricity and gas businesses in India, a developing country in Asia. Finally, this book explores future regulation and business of city gas industry. Pipeline network should be regulated to comply with future unbundling starting from 2022, and gas business altogether with electricity and water businesses need more digitization.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan: Reasons, Objectives, and Methods
Chapter 2. Survival Analysis of Public Gas Utility Firms in the Japanese Urban Gas Industry
Chapter 3. Concession in infrastructure management: A case of public gas service in Japan
Chapter 4. A Study on the Background and Issues of Privatization of Public City Gas Utilities in Japan- Implications by comparing several business analysis indicators
Chapter 5. Privatization of Public Utilities: Results from the UK Experiment
Chapter 6. Issues in the Development of the Energy Distribution Sector in India: The Cases of the Electricity and Gas Industries
Chapter 7. New Designs for Regulations on City Gas Pipeline Networks in Japan
Chapter 8. New Designs for City Gas Businesses in the Era of the Fully Liberalized Gas Retail Markets in Japan
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