Author: Darwin L. BreedingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Forecasting Financial Requirements for Southwestern Public Service Company
Author: Darwin L. BreedingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Regulatory Finance
Author: Howard E. ThompsonPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 146153948X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This monograph is concerned with the determination of the allowed rate ofreturn in rate cases which, in part, determines the rates ofcharge to customers of public utilities. Rate of return determination has been a central topic in utility regulation for a century. Recent changes in the traditionally regulated markets - electricity, gas, and telephone - have shoved discussion of rate of return determination into the background, replacing it by technology changes, competition, downsizing, deregulation, and reg'ulatory incentive systems. These new issues have made the regula tory sector, which had the reputation of being stodgy and uninteresting, an exciting field ofstudy. But rate ofreturn is not dead. It will playa key role in whatever the new structure ofthe regulated sector. Separating generation from transmis sion and distribution will not eliminate the need for rate of return analysis in the electric utility industry. Rather, it may well increase the number of companies for which the rate of return needs to be determined. It will playa fundamental role in the new regulatory environment. Incentive systems in the regulated sector may be the wave of the future but they will use the required rate ofreturn as a benchmark. Rate case will persist. Most rate cases include opposing testimony as to the "fair" rate of return or even the cost ofcapital for a public utility whose rates are at issue.
FPC News
Author: United States. Federal Power CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reports
Author: United States. Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 1910
Book Description
Credit Decisions
Author: Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis
Author: Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
Directory of Consultants
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business consultants
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Energy Research Abstracts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 922
Book Description
Semiannual, with semiannual and annual indexes. References to all scientific and technical literature coming from DOE, its laboratories, energy centers, and contractors. Includes all works deriving from DOE, other related government-sponsored information, and foreign nonnuclear information. Arranged under 39 categories, e.g., Biomedical sciences, basic studies; Biomedical sciences, applied studies; Health and safety; and Fusion energy. Entry gives bibliographical information and abstract. Corporate, author, subject, report number indexes.
Regulating Power: The Economics of Electrictiy in the Information Age
Author: Carl PechmanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461532582
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Modem industrial society functions with the expectation that electricity will be available when required. By law, electric utilities have the obligation to provide electricity to customers in a "safe and adequate" manner. In exchange for this obligation, utilities are granted a monopoly right to provide electricity to customers within well-defmed service territories. However, utilities are not unfettered in their monopoly power; public utility commissions regulate the relationship between a utility and its customers and limit profits to a "fair rate of return on invested capital. " From its inception through the late 1970s, the electric utility industry's opera tional paradigm was to continue marketing electricity to customers and to build power plants to meet customer needs. This growth was facilitated by a U. S. energy policy predicated upon the assumption that sustained electric growth was causally linked to social welfare (Lovins, 1977). The electric utility industry is now in transition from a vertically integrated monopoly to a more competitive market. Of the three primary components (generation, transmission, and distribution) of the traditional vertically integrated monopoly, generation is leading this transformation. The desired outcome is a more efficient market for the provision of electric service, ultimately resulting in lower costs to customers. This book focuses on impediments to this transformation. In partiCUlar, it argues that information control is a form of market power that inhibits the evolution of the market. The analysis is presented within the context of the transformation of the U. S.