1991

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...

Ostrom, Elinor. Design Principles Illustrated by Long-Enduring Common Property Resource Limitations" Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Table 3.1., p. 90. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1990.

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...

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...