might experience because of structural changes in the electricity industry. Regulators, policy analysts, utilities, and … electricity markets or delaying retail competition. This report has 3 objectives: identify a wide range of strategies available to …: market actions, depreciation options, rate-making actions, utility cost reductions, tax measures, and other options. Of the …

system operator under cost-based prices. This computer model demonstrated the likely complexity of markets for energy and …

electricity prices. Indeed, industry reforms are moving most rapidly in high-cost states, such as California and those in the … lower electricity prices in the low-cost region. Perhaps the most straightforward way to allocate the costs and benefits to …In part, the impetus for restructuring the U.S. electricity industry stems from the large regional disparities in …

Progress is evident as the restructuring debate in the U.S. electricity industry completes its third year. The Federal … actors as a result of government initiatives to transform electricity generation from a regulated to a competitive market …). Transition costs are approximately equal to the difference between the embedded cost for generation services under traditional …

peak demands 5% and reduced electricity sales 1% that year. Utility projections suggest that these reductions will increase … recoupling uses statistical models, based on historical data, that explain retail electricity sales as functions of the number of … utility customers, winter and summer weather, the condition of the local economy, electricity price, and perhaps a few other …

customers with low-cost electricity, stable prices, and a clean environment. What, if any, portfolio-management responsibilities … regulators are responding to current and likely changes in the electricity industry. The paper then discusses how IRP might … utility built power plants, an emphasis on transmission and distribution planning, treatment of electricity pricing (with time …

Utility energy efficiency programs hurt shareholders because these programs reduce electricity use, and this reduction … in the number of customers, the determinants of changes in fixed costs, or the determinants of changes in electricity use … factor that allows for changes in electricity use per customer, and statistical recoupling. We used data from five utilities …