An Analysis of the Electric Utility Industry in the U.S.
Author : ICF Incorporated
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Electric utilities
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Author : ICF Incorporated
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Page : pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Electric utilities
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Author :
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Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Electric utilities
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Author : ICF Incorporated
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Electric utilities
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Author : Scott Hempling
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2020-10-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 1839109467
What happens when electric utility monopolies pursue their acquisition interests—undisciplined by competition, and insufficiently disciplined by the regulators responsible for replicating competition? Since the mid-1980s, mergers and acquisitions of U.S. electric utilities have halved the number of local, independent utilities. Mostly debt-financed, these transactions have converted retiree-suitable investments into subsidiaries of geographically scattered conglomerates. Written by one of the U.S.’s leading regulatory thinkers, this book combines legal, accounting, economic and financial analysis of the 30-year march of U.S. electricity mergers with insights from the dynamic field of behavioral economics.
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Page : pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Electric utilities
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Author : Suraj P. Kanhouwa
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Electric Utilities
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Author : ICF Incorporated
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Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Electric utilities
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Author : John E. Kwoka Jr.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2007-08-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0585229651
Power Structure examines the effects on economic performance of several key features of the U.S. electric power industry. Paramount among these are public versus private ownership, vertical integration versus deintegration, and retail competition versus monopoly distribution. Each of these, as well as other structural characteristics of utilities and their markets, are analyzed for their effects on costs and price. These issues are important for a number of reasons. The U.S. electric power industry is presently embarking on a fundamental restructuring in terms of integration and competition. In other countries, privatization of state-owned enterprises is being viewed as the answer to unsatisfactory performance. From a longer perspective, the question of the relative performance of publicly owned versus privately owned utilities in the U.S. has never been resolved. And despite much speculation there is little reliable evidence as to the importance of either vertical integration or competition.
Author : Leonard S. Hyman
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Richard F. Hirsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521524711
This book illuminates the role of technological stagnation in the decline of the American electric utility industry in the late 1960s and 1970s. Unlike other interpreters of the industry's woes, Professor Hirsh argues that a long and successful history of managing a conventional technology set the stage for the industry's deterioration. After improving steadily for decades, the technology that brought unequalled productivity growth to the industry appeared to stall in the late 1960s, making it impossible to mitigate the economic and regulatory assaults of the 1970s. Unfortunately, most managers did not recognize (or did not want to believe) the severity of the technological problems they faced, and they chose to focus instead on issues (usually financial or public relations) that appeared more manageable. Partly as a result of this lack of attention to technological issues, the industry found itself in the 1980s challenged by the prospects of deregulation and restructuring.