Publications

Brown, Ashley. Transparency in Regulated Industries: Elements and Importance. Draft. 20 May 1996.

Detroit Edison's suit to halt the Michigan Commission's
limited retail wheeling experiment could result in two
ironies: (1) Edison may still be required to wheel power to
retail customers, but at rates less likely to be fully
compensatory, and (2) its...

The debate on the issue of pricing transmission services, indeed transmission policy in
general, is characterized by a massive cognitive dissonance. FERC issues a lengthy series of
significant questions about just about everything a federal regulator would...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The passage of the Energy Policy Act in 1992 ushered in a new competitive era in the U.S. electricity industry. The task ahead for both state and federal regulators is to make the regulatory changes that are a necessary part of these...

The passage of the Energy Policy Act in 1992 ushered in a new competitve era in the U.S. electricity industry. The task ahead for both state and federal regulators is to make the regulatory changes that are a necessary part of these changes in a coherent...

The recently passed Energy Policy Act has intensified the need to resolved long-standing problems between federal and state regulatory systems. Various means of coordination are open but benefits will be lost if we don't get moving.

Foremost among a number of legislative reforms imposed upon state utility and regulatory commissions in recent years have been sunshine laws. The intent of sunshine laws is laudable and the idea simple: the public's business ought to be conducted in the...

For years, utilities, regulators, and economists have discussed the possibility of opening access to the electric transmission grid. It is now well past the time to cut the Gordian knot in impasse over the debate, and to raise the key strategic question...

This article examines how the cost of transmission of power is to be incorporated in the utilities ratebase in a competitive bulk power market. The topics include a call for public discussion and debate, who should bear the risk of residual revenue...

There is a fundamental contradiction between the substantive task regulatory bodies, such as public utility commissions, are charged with performing and the process imposed upon them for doing it. This contradiction, often reinforced by the nature of...

This article examines the nature and extent of authority which state utility commissions have to regulate access
to electric power transmission lines and pricing for such access. Somewhat surprisingly, since there has
been a common assumption that this is...