Regulating Public Utility Performance
Regulating Public Utility Performance

Author: Scott Hempling

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781627222921

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Organizing a century of legal principles to help the U.S. public utility industry resolve tensions created by the current legal boundaries of legal regulation and fashion new policies for the future. Its mix of case narratives and doctrine, drawn from all legal sources, is geared to lawyers and non-lawyers, veterans and novices, practitioners and decision-makers, academics and the media--anyone seeking to use the law to serve the public interest. Topics covered include market structure, pricing, and jurisdictional issues.

Accounting for Public Utilities
Accounting for Public Utilities

Author: Robert L. Hahne

Publisher: International Institute of Technology, Incorporated

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780820510163

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This publication, for those involved in utility accounting, finance, ratemaking and deregulation, brings into focus special types of accounting rules, situations and adaptations that are essential in this highly specialized industry. Features of this work include: a discussion of ratemaking concepts, including styles of ratemaking, determining utility rate base, cost allocations and normalization; an analysis of regulatory accounting and reporting requirements; and an explanation of accounting for taxes, public utility regulation, management accounting systems, pricing and depreciation. The price quoted for the work covers one year's worth of service.

Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication
Regulating Mergers and Acquisitions of U.S. Electric Utilities: Industry Concentration and Corporate Complication

Author: Scott Hempling

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-10-30

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 1839109467

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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.

A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University
A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University

Author: Julius J. Marke

Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 1418

ISBN-13: 1886363919

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Marke, Julius J., Editor. A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University With Selected Annotations. New York: The Law Center of New York University, 1953. xxxi, 1372 pp. Reprinted 1999 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. LCCN 99-19939. ISBN 1-886363-91-9. Cloth. $195. * Reprint of the massive, well-annotated catalogue compiled by the librarian of the School of Law at New York University. Classifies approximately 15,000 works excluding foreign law, by Sources of the Law, History of Law and its Institutions, Public and Private Law, Comparative Law, Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Political and Economic Theory, Trials, Biography, Law and Literature, Periodicals and Serials and Reference Material. With a thorough subject and author index. This reference volume will be of continuous value to the legal scholar and bibliographer, due not only to the works included but to the authoritative annotations, often citing more than one source. Besterman, A World Bibliography of Bibliographies 3461.

Preside Or Lead?
Preside Or Lead?

Author: Scott Hempling

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780989327701

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This is a book of essays that addresses a species of regulation: the regulation of our public utilities. These providers of electricity, gas, telecommunications, and water support our local, regional, national, and international economies. Our lives depend on their performance. Defining and demanding that performance is the job of regulators. Regulators set standards, compensate the efficient, and penalize the inefficient. These standards, compensation, and penalties align private behavior with the public interest. In my 30 years' close-up experience working with regulators, I have been consistently impressed by the power of personal attributes. The public battles feature the parties, their hired experts, and their attorneys. But when the record closes and deliberations begin, the focus shifts to the commissioners. Case outcomes are determined not only by facts, law, and policy, but also by commissioners' attributes--attributes like purposefulness, decisiveness, independence, creativity, ethics, and courage. These attributes, or their absence, influence the actions of regulators--such as whether they "balance" and "preside" or whether they set standards and lead. And even the most purposeful, educated, decisive, and independent regulators--those who make the tough calls and take the right actions--face obstacles: the forces of self-interest and provincialism that can undermine the high purpose of regulation.