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Electricity restructuring in the United States : markets and policy from the 1978 Energy Act to the present
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ISBN: 1316324265 1316310884 1316327604 131633094X 1316290255 1316334287 1107498228 1316181383 1316320901 9781316320907 110710078X 1316317560 9781316181386 9781316330944 9781316327609 9781316290255 9781107498228 9781107100787 9781316334287 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The electric utility industry in the US is technologically complex, and its structure as a classic network industry makes it intricate in business terms as well, so deregulation of such a complicated industry was a particularly detailed process. Steve Isser provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the history of the transformation of this complex industry from the 1978 Energy Policy Act to the present, covering the economic, legal, regulatory, and political issues and controversies in the transition from regulated utilities to competitive electricity markets. The book is a multidisciplinary study that includes a comprehensive review of the economic literature on electricity markets, the political environment of electricity policymaking, administrative and regulatory rulemaking, and the federal case law that restrained state and federal regulation of electricity. Dr Isser offers a valuable case study of the pitfalls and problems associated with the deregulation of a complex network industry.

The natural gas market : sixty years of regulation and deregulation
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ISBN: 0300083815 9786611730130 1281730130 0300129327 9780300129328 9781281730138 9780300083811 Year: 2000 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Over the past six decades federal regulatory agencies have attempted different strategies to regulate the natural gas industry in the United States. All have been unsuccessful, resulting in nationwide gas shortages or massive gas surpluses and costing the nation scores of billions of dollars. In addition, partial deregulation has led the regulatory agency to become more involved in controlling individual transactions among gas producers, distributors, and consumers. In this important book, Paul MacAvoy demonstrates that no affected group has gained from these experiments in public control and that all participants would gain from complete deregulation. Although losses have declined with partial deregulation in recent years, current regulatory practices still limit the growth of supply through the transmission system. MacAvoy's history of the regulation of natural gas is a cautionary tale for other natural resource or network industries that are regulated or are about to be regulated.

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