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STRANDED COSTS

Specialty Definition: STRANDED COSTS

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Economics

Uneconomic physical assets (generating plants which are uneconomic to run now and will be even more uneconomic in the competitive era), past investments, long-term contracts and expenses, previously reviewed and approved (and in some cases mandated) by regulators that have not yet been fully recovered by the utility companies and will be unrecoverable in a fully competitive market because competitors will bear no such burdens. Source: European Union. (references)

Statistics

Assets owned by utilities that supposedly would become uneconomical in a competitive marketplace:for example, non-depreciated generating facilities or pre-established long-term contractual obligations. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: STRANDED COSTS

Specialty definitions using "STRANDED COSTS": COMPETITIVE TRANSMISSION CHARGE. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: STRANDED COSTS

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Business

Because stranded costs often result from nuclear generator investments, KEPCO's own Genco could be in jeopardy if it fails to compete with other Gencos and IPPs once competition begins. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Modern Translation: STRANDED COSTS

Language Translations for "STRANDED COSTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

bundne omkostninger. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gestrande kosten. (various references)

   

French

  

coûts paralysés, coûts irrécupérables, coûts des installations de production non rentables, coûts échoués. (various references)

   

German

  

verlorene Investitionen, gestrandete Kosten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαμένες επενδύσεις. (various references)

   

Italian

  

costi paralizzati, costi irrecuperabili, costi di impianti di produzione non redditizi sul mercato. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

andedstray ostscay

   

Portuguese

  

custos irrecuperáveis. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

CTC (C.T.C., centralized traffic control, consolidated control), costos desprovistos, costes hundidos, costes de transición a la competencia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: STRANDED COSTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-n-o-r-s-s-s-t-t"

-3 letters: contrasted.

-4 letters: ancestors, assentors, coatdress, coattends, contrasts, darndests, endocasts, endosarcs, starnoses, testcross, transects.

-5 letters: ancestor, assentor, assorted, attorned, cartoned, coarsens, coarsest, coasters, coattend, contests, contrast, costards, crassest, crossest, darndest, descants, detracts, enactors, endocast, endosarc, narcoses, redcoats, scantest, scatters, senators, standers, starnose, stentors, stranded, tacnodes, tartness, toasters, torsades, transect, treasons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Quotations: Non-fiction
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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