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The Effects of Regulation on the Electric Utility Industry
Author : United States Accounting Office (GAO)
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 12,82 MB
Release : 2018-06-13
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ISBN : 9781721011254
The Effects of Regulation on the Electric Utility Industry
Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 120 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Electric power-plants
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
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Page : 7 pages
File Size : 48,8 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Electric utilities
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office. Comptroller General
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Page : 97 pages
File Size : 24,28 MB
Release : 1981
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Page : pages
File Size : 38,97 MB
Release : 1981
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Page : 97 pages
File Size : 45,5 MB
Release : 1981
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Author : Carl Pechman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 24,69 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1461532582
Modem industrial society functions with the expectation that electricity will be available when required. By law, electric utilities have the obligation to provide electricity to customers in a "safe and adequate" manner. In exchange for this obligation, utilities are granted a monopoly right to provide electricity to customers within well-defmed service territories. However, utilities are not unfettered in their monopoly power; public utility commissions regulate the relationship between a utility and its customers and limit profits to a "fair rate of return on invested capital. " From its inception through the late 1970s, the electric utility industry's opera tional paradigm was to continue marketing electricity to customers and to build power plants to meet customer needs. This growth was facilitated by a U. S. energy policy predicated upon the assumption that sustained electric growth was causally linked to social welfare (Lovins, 1977). The electric utility industry is now in transition from a vertically integrated monopoly to a more competitive market. Of the three primary components (generation, transmission, and distribution) of the traditional vertically integrated monopoly, generation is leading this transformation. The desired outcome is a more efficient market for the provision of electric service, ultimately resulting in lower costs to customers. This book focuses on impediments to this transformation. In partiCUlar, it argues that information control is a form of market power that inhibits the evolution of the market. The analysis is presented within the context of the transformation of the U. S.
Author : John C. Moorhouse
Publisher : Pacific Studies in Public Poli
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 13,35 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Lorrin Philipson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 14,38 MB
Release : 1998-09-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780824719203
This volume provides a thorough review of the past, present and future of the wholesale and retail electic power industry. It includes tutorial chapters on electric utility function and structure, electricity and power, the uses of electric power, and more. The authors provide a simple but complete discussion of de-regulation and explain the structure of the de-regulated electric power industry, including the competitive wholesale and retail levels, the retail energy services sector, and more.
Author : Richard L. Gordon
Publisher : Free Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Business & Economics
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