continuing economics discussion, rate of return for governments
continuing economics discussion, rate of return for governments
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http://www .eng-tips. com/viewth read.cfm?q id=201380& amp;page=1 got me thinking some more about economic analysis of transformer losses.
After going to our financial guy, I was very surprised at the low rate of return publicly owned utilities expect versus private/investor owned utilities. Does anyone have a good way to explain why it works that way?
If I did the analysis correctly, we should buy a highly efficient transformer that lasts 40+years, but an investor owned utility would instead buy a higher cost one that lasted 10-15 year. I just can't quite grasp why even though the technical requirements would be the same, the ownership would drive vastly different decisions.
After going to our financial guy, I was very surprised at the low rate of return publicly owned utilities expect versus private/investor owned utilities. Does anyone have a good way to explain why it works that way?
If I did the analysis correctly, we should buy a highly efficient transformer that lasts 40+years, but an investor owned utility would instead buy a higher cost one that lasted 10-15 year. I just can't quite grasp why even though the technical requirements would be the same, the ownership would drive vastly different decisions.





RE: continuing economics discussion, rate of return for governments
RE: continuing economics discussion, rate of return for governments