Completely revised and updated, this handbook will help you understand how utilities are regulated, measured, and priced and will be an important step in helping eliminate unnecessarily excessive utility costs. This latest edition will include more detail on usage and billing processes in the purchase of electricity, the basics of electricity deregulation, samples of expected retail wheeling transactions, details on the nine generation grids in the U.S. and their importance in the everyday electricity transaction.

A detailed but not overly technical guide to reducing the cost of electricity, natural gas, water/sewer, and state sales tax. The emphasis in on the individual, but the ideas are also applicable to small businesses, and could be quite beneficial to managers of residential rental units. Explains the workings of the utility companies and their regulation, how to compare the cost of different forms of energy, what the company can and will do for you, and other practical steps. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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