Author: Walter J. PrimeauxPublisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Direct Electric Utility Competition
Author: Walter J. PrimeauxPublisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Competition, Prices and X-efficiency
Author: Walter J. PrimeauxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The purposes of this study were (1) to assess the magnitude of price effects whenever an electric utility firm faces DIRECT competition from another electric utility firm and (2) to observe these price-effects of competition compared with X-efficiency effects on costs.
Competition in the Electric Industry
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309056810
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Utilities Code
Author: TexasDirect Electric Utility Competition
Author: Walter J. PrimeauxPublisher: Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication
Author: Scott HemplingPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1839109467
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
What happens when electric utility monopolies pursue their acquisition interests—undisciplined by competition, and insufficiently disciplined by the regulators responsible for replicating competition? Since the mid-1980s, mergers and acquisitions of U.S. electric utilities have halved the number of local, independent utilities. Mostly debt-financed, these transactions have converted retiree-suitable investments into subsidiaries of geographically scattered conglomerates. Written by one of the U.S.’s leading regulatory thinkers, this book combines legal, accounting, economic and financial analysis of the 30-year march of U.S. electricity mergers with insights from the dynamic field of behavioral economics.
The End of a Natural Monopoly
Author: Daniel H. ColePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135697019
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
This book addresses the fundamental issues underlying the debate over electric power regulation and deregulation. After decades of the presumption that the electric power industry was a natural monopoly, recent times have seen a trend of deregulation followed by panicked re-regulation. This important book critically analyses this controversial area from a legal and economic perspective.
Selling Power
Author: John L. NeufeldPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022639977X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
We remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison’s light bulb was the first to work within a system where a utility generated electricity and distributed it to customers for lighting. The story of how electric utilities went within one generation from prototype to an indispensable part of most Americans’ lives is a story about the relationships between political and technological change. John L. Neufeld offers a comprehensive historical treatment of the economics that shaped electric utilities. Compared with most industries, the organization of the electric utility industry is not—and cannot be—economically efficient. Most industries are kept by law in a state of fair competition, but the capital necessary to start an electric company—generators, transmission and distribution systems, and land and buildings—is so substantial that few companies can enter the market and compete. Therefore, the natural state of the electric utility industry since its inception has been a monopoly subject to government oversight. These characteristics of electric utilities—and electricity’s importance—have created over time sharp political controversies, and changing public policies have dramatically changed the industry’s structure to an extent matched by few other industries. Neufeld outlines the struggles that shaped the industry’s development, and shows how the experience of electric utilities provides insight into the design of economic institutions, including today’s new large-scale markets.
Unnatural Monopolies
Author: Robert W. PoolePublisher: Free Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Reinventing Electric Utilities
Author: Ed SmeloffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The SMUD portrait is complemented by regional case studies of Portland General Electric and the Washington Public Power Supply System, the New England Electric Service, Northern States Power, the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas, and others.