The U.S. electricity sector is going through dramatic changes. The changes are expanding competition in the generating segment of the industry, making it possible for consumers to choose among competing generation service suppliers, and reforming the regulation of remaining monopoly segments....

This paper examines developments since the publication of The Economics of Regulation in the theory of incentive regulation and its application to the regulation of unbundled electricity transmission and distribution networks. Conceptual mechanism design issues that arise when regulators are...

Hans Landsberg and Sam Schurr each led research teams that produced two important energy futures policy studies that were published in 1979. The conclusions, policy recommendations, and energy demand, supply, and price forecasts contained in these studies are reviewed. Developments in U.S....

The paper examines the economic and regulatory factors that led to an explosion in wholesale power prices, supply shortages, and utility insolvencies in California's electricity sector from May 2000 to June 2001. The structure of California's restructured electricity sector and its early...

The industry structure and regulatory framework that characterizes the electric power sector in the U.S. is in a state of disarray. Some regions have adopted a fully liberalized electricity sector model, others have retained the traditional model of regulated vertically integrated monopolies,...

About 1970 until 1990, the federal regulatory policy in the United States experiences an deep and wide change. In the first place regulation was dramatically expanded. But immediately a contraction of economic regulation took place. Prince, benefits, and entry controls in sectors such as...

This paper reviews the main attributes of the electric sector and analyses from an institutional perspective the challenges of increasing the generation supply. Although the sector evolved with regulated monopolies, this institution creates its own costs; there is a trade of between the costs...

The utilities price regulation in the United States has historically been made by a state commission. Nevertheless, this regulatory system does not incentive cost controls within the utilities. In order to rectify this situation the regulatory commissions have changed their view to one of...