Learn from this collection of thought-provoking commentary on change and electric regulatory reform from executives, state regulators, and federal commissioners in the regulatory community. Plus, perspectives from other players -- the utilities governed by these regulators, the financial community (rating agencies), independent power producers, and public power. Hear from "star contributors:" Kenneth W. Costello, Douglas N. Jones, Thomas Feiler, Daniel William Fessler, Karl A. McDermott, Lisa Crutchfield, Richard Abdoo, Donald F. Santa, Jr., David W. Penn, Merribel S. Ayres, and Steven M. Fetter, and a host of others.
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Preface
PART I: General Background
- Chapter 1: Assessing the Future of Electric Utility Regulation -- Gregory B. Enholm and J. Robert Malko
- Chapter 2: Key Considerations for Reinventing Electric Utility Regulation -- Samir F. Barakat and Gregory B. Enholm
- Chapter 3: The Changing Regulatory Framework: Federal Legislation -- Harriet Liza Moses
- Chapter 4: Lessons Learned in State Electric Utility Regulation -- Kenneth W. Costello and Douglas N. Jones
- Chapter 5: Traditional and New Regulatory Tools -- J. Robert Malko and Richard J. Williams
- Chapter 6: Quantifying the Loss from Regulatory Change -- Thomas Feiler
PART II: State Regulatory Activity
- Chapter 7: The Reinventing Process for California Regulation -- Daniel William Fessler
- Chapter 8: A California Chief Executive’s View of Regulatory Reform -- Thomas A. Page
- Chapter 9: Connecticut’s Position on Retail Wheeling -- Evan W. Woollacott
- Chapter 10: Illinois’ Changing Regulatory Incentives -- Karl A. McDermott
- Chapter 11: Turbulent Water Ahead! Regulating in Troubled Waters (and Living to Tell the Tale) -- Wayne P. Olson
- Chapter 12: The Future Challenge: Utilities that Work -- Curt Hebert
- Chapter 13: Performance-based Regulation and Competition in New York: What Role for Cost-based Regulation? -- Warren E. Myers and Robert L. Whitaker
- Chapter 14: The Development of Competition in the Pennsylvania Electric Industry -- Lisa Crutchfield and Z Ahmed Kaloko
- Chapter 15: Regulation in the Lone Star State -- Robert W. Gee and Kentton C. Grant
- Chapter 16: Riding into Utah’s Electric Utility Future -- Judith Johnson and
Kenneth B. Powell
- Chapter 17: Washington Examines Regulation in an Evolving Industry -- William R. Gillis, Jeffrey W. Showman, and Richard W. Byers
- Chapter 18: Wisconsin’s Public Policy Options for Competition -- Dennis Ray,
Lee Cullen, and Rodney Stevenson
- Chapter 19: Wisconsin Electric’s Proposal for Reshaping the Electric Industry -- Richard A. Abdoo
PART III: Perspectives from Other Participants
- Chapter 20: NARUC’s Perspective on Change -- Ronald E. Russell
- Chapter 21: New Directions at FERC -- Donald F. Santa, Jr. and Clifford S. Sikora
- Chapter 22: Reconsidering FERC/State Interactions -- Vicky A. Bailey and
Larry Bruneel
- Chapter 23: Moving Toward Innovative Regulation in a More Competitive Electric Utility Industry -- Kenneth P. Linder and Eric T. Ackerman
- Chapter 24: A Rating Agency’s Perspective on Regulatory Reform -- Steven M. Fetter
- Chapter 25: Public Power’s Perspective on Regulatory Reform -- David W. Penn
- Chapter 26: Is Competition Here? -- Merribel S. Ayres
- Chapter 27: Meshing New Regulation with New Utilities -- Gregory B. Enholm and
J. Robert Malko
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