Public Utility Rate Making In An Energy-Conscious Environment

Public Utility Rate Making In An Energy-Conscious Environment
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9781000236880
ISBN-13 : 1000236889
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Synopsis Public Utility Rate Making In An Energy-Conscious Environment by : Werner Sichel

This collection of papers by some of America's most respected scholars and practitioners in the field of public utility regulation provides an up-to-date analysis of urgent problems and proposed remedies concerning the electricity and natural gas industries. The authors--two academic economists, a professor of law, a practicing attorney and consume

Energy Utility Rate Setting

Energy Utility Rate Setting
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Publisher : Lulu.com
Total Pages : 151
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ISBN-10 : 9781411689596
ISBN-13 : 1411689593
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Energy Utility Rate Setting by : Lowell Alt

A Practical Guide to the Retail Rate Setting Process for Regulated Electric and Natural Gas Utilities. This book explains how the traditional rate-setting process is commonly done for energy utilities. This book includes a discussion of revenue requirement, rate base, cost of capital, expenses, revenues, rate-making objectives, cost of service studies, rate design, the rate case process, tariff policies, metering, service quality and other types of cases affecting rates. The book concludes with a numerical example showing the calculation steps from revenue requirement to rate design.

Principles of Public Utility Rates

Principles of Public Utility Rates
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Total Pages : 728
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4266034
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Synopsis Principles of Public Utility Rates by : James Cummings Bonbright

Grasp regulatory issues and the principles of public utility pricing...Start with basic theory; learn what multiple functions public utility rates are designed to perform; understand the four primary functions rate regulations must perform; examine what constitutes fairness of rates; and wrap it all up with the criteria for judging a sound rate structure.

Public Utility Rate Making and the Price Level

Public Utility Rate Making and the Price Level
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Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015063848462
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Synopsis Public Utility Rate Making and the Price Level by : Edward Morris Bernstein

It is the purpose of this study to show how the rate-making rule and its procedure were developed, to consider the difficulties that were experienced under this rule, to discuss the new methods of rate making that commissions used during a period of rapid fluctuation in prices, and to offer a reasonable solution for the rate-making problem. Originally published in 1937. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Electric Energy Policy Issues

Electric Energy Policy Issues
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Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015002059544
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Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Electric Energy Policy Issues by : Terry A. Ferrar

The Politics of Public Utility Regulation

The Politics of Public Utility Regulation
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Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Total Pages : 284
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ISBN-10 : 9780822974277
ISBN-13 : 0822974274
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Politics of Public Utility Regulation by : William T. Gormley, Jr.

This book focuses on the important and increasingly controversial issues of utility regulation by combining a sophisticated understanding of these issues with a rigorous examination of various regulatory arrangements across the American states. It draws on interviews with participants in twelve states: public utility commissioners, commission staff members, utility company executives, governmental consumer advocates, and citizen activists. In addition to offering an up-to-date, comprehensive survey of regulatory politics at the state level, Gormley makes specific proposals for regulatory reform and emphasizes the importance (and difficulty) of assuring both expertise and accountability. Students of politics and public policy will find the state-level approach useful in examining the strategies of the "New Federalism" that transfer more and more formerly federal responsibilities to the states.

Utilities Code

Utilities Code
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:133181688
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Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Synopsis Utilities Code by : Texas

Regulation and Its Reform

Regulation and Its Reform
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 488
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ISBN-10 : 9780674028760
ISBN-13 : 0674028767
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Regulation and Its Reform by : Stephen Breyer

This book will become the bible of regulatory reform. No broad, authoritative treatment of the subject has been available for many years except for Alfred Kahn’s Economics of Regulation (1970). And Stephen Breyer’s book is not merely a utilitarian analysis or a legal discussion of procedures; it employs the widest possible perspective to survey the full implications of government regulation—economic, legal, administrative, political—while addressing the complex problems of administering regulatory agencies. Only a scholar with Judge Breyer’s practical experience as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee could have accomplished this task. He develops an ingenious original system for classifying regulatory activities according to the kinds of problems that have called for, or have seemed to call for, regulation; he then examines how well or poorly various regulatory regimes remedy these market defects. This enables him to organize an enormous amount of material in a coherent way, and to make significant and useful generalizations about real-world problems. Among the regulatory areas he considers are health and safety; environmental pollution, trucking, airlines, natural gas, public utilities, and telecommunications. He further gives attention to related topics such as cost-of-service ratemaking, safety standards, antitrust, and property rights. Clearly this is a book whose time is here—a veritable how-to-do-it book for administration deregulators, legislators, and the judiciary; and because it is comprehensive and superbly organized, with a wealth of highly detailed examples, it is practical for use in law schools and in courses on economics and political science.

Regulating Power: The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age

Regulating Power: The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781461532583
ISBN-13 : 1461532582
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Regulating Power: The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age by : Carl Pechman

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.