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Public Utilities Reports GUIDE
The Standard Educational Tool for Training
Utility Employees
Expanded Revised Version Available NOW!
Edited by Public Utilities Reports, Inc. Staff
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The PUR Guide is a training manual and reference work in one,
explaining all the basic principles needed to succeed in the utililty industry.
This special program, developed by PUR's knowledgeable editors along with outside professionals,
is a self-study course ideal for those new to the utility industry, yet it also is designed to keep even seasoned
employees abreast of ongoing changes, especially in these times of restructuring, deregulation, and re-regulation.
This expanded and revised version provides crucial information on:
The Energy Policy Act of 2005
Changes in restructuring plans
New plant technologies
Developments in environmental regulation
Renewables portfolio standards, and more.
The Guide program is composed of eight self-study booklets, each of which covers a different critical topic:
Public Utilities
Regulation
Delivery of Service
Rates and Rate Making
Accounting
Finance
Organization and Management
Market Issues
Plus, a ninth booklet, References, offers a comprehensive glossary and a select bibliography.
And to help enhance your education, each PUR Guide program includes a one-year subscription to Public Utilities
Fortnightly, a $169.00 value.
You may view the Table of Contents of each of the individual booklets by clicking on the name.
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Learning Outcomes of PUR Guide
The student of the PUR Guide program will be able to:
- Identify basic operating characteristics of public utility industries including electricity, natural gas, telecommunications, and water.
- Explain the differences between regulated and non-regulated industries.
- Appreciate the importance of public utility service in the U.S. economy.
- Recognize the "regulatory compact" between government and private industry, which includes regulated profits and "on demand" service obligations.
- Explain how utility services are delivered to the end user/customer.
- Describe the utility ratemaking process employed by state and federal regulators.
- Recognize basic accounting principles used by utility companies.
- Discuss financing activities used by utility companies and the relationship of regulation, ratemaking, and attraction of capital.
- Describe the various organizational structures employed by utility companies.
- Explain how marketing and competition activities used by regulated industries differ from those of non-regulated industries.
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