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Author Staff, National Research Council

Title Competition in the Electric Industry : Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1996

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Contents Competition in the Electric Industry: Emerging Issues, Opportunities, and Risks for Facility Operators -- Copyright -- PREFACE -- COMPETITION IN THE ELECTRIC INDUSTRY: EMERGING ISSUES, OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS FOR FACILIITY OPERATORS -- Contents -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY -- ISSUES AND CONSIDERATIONS -- THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION'S OPEN ACCESS RULE -- TRANSMISSION ACCESS -- COMPARABILITY: THE GOLDEN RULE -- ELIGIBILITY -- ENFORCING COMPARABILITY -- PRO FORMA TARIFF -- STRANDED COSTS -- SCHEDULE -- ELECTRIC POWER COMPETITION: PERSPECTIVE OF A REGULATOR
FACTORS CREATING COMPETITION AND CUSTOMER CHOICEROLE OF ELECTRICITY IN THE ECONOMY -- ELECTRICITY PRICES AS A SOURCE OF COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE -- TRANSITION ISSUES -- FOUR MODELS OF INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING -- HOW CUSTOMERS WILL CHOOSE ELECTRIC GENERATION SERVICES -- CONCLUSION -- A ROADMAP TO ELECTRIC RESTRUCTURING IN CALIFORNIA: DECISIONS 95-12-063And 96-03-022 -- PROCESS -- GOALS FOR RESTRUCTURING CALIFORNIA'S ELECTRIC INDUSTRY -- PROPOSED MARKET STRUCTURE -- THE INDEPENDENT SYSTEM OPERATOR -- THE POWER EXCHANGE -- TRANSITION COSTS
Market choice from the customer's standpointthe role of the utility in a restructured industry -- public purpose programs and rate-setting -- schedule for implementation -- the restructuring of california's electric industry: a utility's perspective -- benefits of and concerns about retail access -- jurisdictional concerns -- basic issues in retail access -- conclusion -- competition in the electric power industry: a view from new york -- the price problem in new york -- niagara mohawk's 1994 multiyear price cap proposal -- the power choice proposal
The necessity of recovering strandable costsunbundled services and the transition fee -- other proposals under consideration -- conclusion -- buying and selling electricity: perspective of a power marketer -- information and commodity markets -- the question of reliability -- timing is everything -- the oglethorpe example -- conclusion -- perspective of an electrical power customer -- marginal costs and the price of power -- low-cost power: a prediction -- a boom in electricity-intensive industry -- customers' strategies for lowering power costs
Opportunities and risks in electric competition: a view from the department of defensereport to congress -- focusing on the basics -- conclusion -- saving billions from energy efficiency in the federal sector: institutionalizing energy efficiency i ... -- overcoming barriers to energy efficiency -- conclusion -- acquisition of utilities services: some legal considerations -- how to achieve a competitive system -- existing opportunities -- conclusion -- additional considerations in the electric competition debate -- competition does not come quickly
Notes ""Discrimination""
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Subject Electric utilities -- United States -- Congresses
Competition -- Government policy -- United States -- Congresses
Competition -- Government policy
Electric utilities
United States
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309590044
0309590043
9780309056816
0309056810